No-deal Brexit could see rise in dogging among lorry drivers, government fears Lorry drivers stuck in massive tailbacks around Dover may fuel a surge in dogging at sex sites near the port, the government fears

Officials preparing Britain for a no-deal Brexit have encountered a new roadblock: a rise in dogging.

A cabinet minister confessed at the Conservative Party conference last week that long tailbacks near the port of Dover could mean lorry drivers visiting voyeuristic sex sites, according to The Sunday Times.

“One of the things we talk about in these no-deal meetings concerns hauliers and their activities,” the minister said.

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‘Dogging all over the place’

“The main thing is whether they will turn up at the Channel ports with the right paperwork. But there are also dogging hotspots all over the place.”

Dogging, a slang term for sex in public, typically occurs in lay-bys, car parks and wooded areas nationwide.

The government’s Yellowhammer report into the effects of no-deal warns of queues lasting two-and-a-half days in Kent.

Now ministers fear with 25 days to go until the proposed Brexit deadline, that dogging could flourish among British lorry drivers.

“Do Europeans even do dogging?” the unnamed minister asked. “There is something deeply British about dogging.”

Gridlock at Dover

In August, Yellowhammer documents warned that lorries could be backed up at ports for 100 miles.

The leaked documents warned that in some major ports up to two-thirds of vehicles will simply be turned away because drivers are unlikely to have the proper paperwork to trade across borders.

The dossier said there would be long queues at the port of Dover because of the importance of the Channel crossing, but a “low risk” of tailbacks at other ports because most vehicles would be turned away.

Most vehicles would be turned away from the ports of Holyhead, Liverpool, Portsmouth and Heysham.

However, No 10 insisted that a no-deal Brexit would not cause total chaos at the ports because hauliers would be given plenty of advice on how to cope with the new rules.