The UK government is hiring over 100 lorries to carry out no deal Brexit traffic tests next week

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• Theresa May's government is hiring over 100 lorries to test how one of the UK's busiest roads would cope in a no deal Brexit.
• "Operation Brock" — one of the government's many no deal Brexit plans — will reportedly be trialed next week.
• Up to 150 lorries will be driven from an airport in Kent to the port of Dover by the Department for Transport.
• The government wants to know how quickly lorries can reach the port which connects the UK to Europe amid fears that a no deal Brexit would unleash severe delays and shortages of necessities like food and medicine.
• The government has been under the spotlight this week for giving a ferry contract to a company that has never operated a ferry service and owns no ships.

LONDON — The government is hiring up to 150 lorries to test how one of the country's busiest roads would cope with the disruption of the UK leaving the European Union without a deal.

The Department for Transport will next week trial a plan known as "Operation Brock" in which lorries be driven from Manston Airport in Kent to the port of Dover on the southern coast of England, Sky News reports.

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