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 According to the Observer:

Travel chaos is ‘the new normal’ after Brexit, British tourists are warned

Anger over lack of cash for Dover upgrade as Tory candidates vie to blame France for delays

Both Tory leadership candidates rushed to blame a shortage of French border staff for delays that saw some travellers waiting for hours....However, diplomats, French officials and border staff warned that the delays were a result of post-Brexit border arrangements struggling to cope in their first major test since Britain left the EU...New rules require all passports to be checked – a pressure that a series of experts regarded as the biggest factor that could not easily be fixed. Clément Beaune, the French transport minister, said yesterday that he was cooperating with transport secretary Grant Shapps to ease the issues, but added: “France is not responsible for Brexit.”...Pierre-Henri Dumont, a Les Républicains MP whose constituency includes Calais, told Sky News: “Because of Brexit, we need to have more checks on passports. We need to stamp every passport. We need to have checks on who is coming into the European Union.

“The shortage of French border force officials is a short-term, tactical problem,” said [a former ambassador to France] . “The long-term, serious issue is that this is the first time we’ve seen the full pressure on the border after Brexit. Even if it was a full complement of the French border force there would still be massive delays, because Dover port can’t cope with the volume.

There are now warnings that delays could become even longer with the planned introduction of biometric checks, under the EU’s new Entry/Exit System.

 I am sure French business will welcome the hsotility that will be felt by British tourists in turn.

Meanwhile in another story, a businessman writes:

Hermann Hauser, founder of Arm: ‘Brexit is the biggest loss of sovereignty since 1066’

Hauser is in big negotiations at the moment over the location of hisvarious important hi-tec concerns, and there have been several occasions on which Arm has appeared in stories about the Government and Brexit:

 [Arm's] future is deeply uncertain, amid concerns it will list on New York’s stock market, loosening its UK roots. The company has halted work on a dual listing in the UK, the Financial Times reported last week. That would be a major blow to Downing Street, which has lobbied hard for a London listing.

Hauser, now a venture capital investor in a series of UK tech companies, sold his shareholding in Arm in 2016 when it was bought by Japan’s SoftBank, but he is an outspoken advocate of it retaining its status as an independent company, and a UK tech champion.

American chip designer Nvidia tried to buy Arm in 2020, which “would have been an absolute disaster”, he says, speaking from his Cambridge office. He is in favour of an initial public offering that allows a diverse shareholder base to take minority investments and keep Arm as the “Switzerland of the semiconductor industry”, able to work with anyone....Arm is actually a great national asset. And probably the only company in the UK that has global relevance in the technology space.”