UK government KAPs it all with its plan to solve post-Brexit truck queues

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It is a common refrain among political sketch writers that writing satire is virtually dead – simply transcribe the speeches of Trump or Johnson, or for that matter Liz Truss (CHEESE!) – and you’re done; the laughs, or tears, generate themselves.

And so to the UK government’s solution to its Brexit doom scenario of 7,000-strong lorry queues to Dover next year: the Kent Access Permit, or KAP.

Let’s just put an R in that abbreviation, and another bit of satire’s done.

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