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The UK government is “making villains of key workers” in logistics according to forwarders, as tensions between ministers and businesses rose to new levels this week.

A leaked letter from Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove to logistics organisations appears to pin the blame for expected queues of up to 7,000 lorries on companies being unprepared.

Mr Gove wrote: “The period of disruption for the reasonable worse case scenario is predicated on assumptions for how traders and hauliers would respond to this scenario. ...

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