A Tory minister last night suggested the grand plan for avoiding traffic delays and jams at Dover after Brexit is... to not check trucks.
Estimates suggest that just a two minute check on lorries would result in queues 29 miles long.
The Transport Secretary seemed to admit that the Government’s plan for avoiding delays and traffic jams of trucks entering the UK post-Brexit is to simply not check them.
Chris Grayling was asked by a member of the Question Time audience in the port town of Dover: "Will the garden of England become the lorry park of England after Brexit?"
He replied: "The answer to that is absolutely not for two reasons.
"The first is that we will maintain a free-flowing border at Dover we will not impose checks in the port.
"It is utterly unrealistic to do so, we don't check lorries now, we're not going to be checking lorries in Dover in the future, absolutely clear it cannot happen.
Irish MEP and vice president of the European Parliament Mairead McGuinness responded saying: "Because you're in Europe now so there are no checks, when you leave Europe there may be checks."
Mr Grayling continued: "Let me be clear we will not in any circumstances create a hard border in Dover which will require us to check every lorry in the port of Dover.
"We will not stop lorries in the port of Dover," he said.
Later on in the debate Mr Grayling said: "We'll check them electronically" but gave not further details.
Stephen Doughty MP, supporter of anti-Brexit group Open Britain, said: “The Transport Secretary has just made a startling admission: he says the Government just won't bother checking trucks coming into Dover post-Brexit. So much for taking back control.
“The Government’s new position on the chaos their Brexit red lines threaten to create at the border seems to be to just turn a blind eye to everything.
“If the cost of Brexit is to totally abandon control of our borders, then everyone is entitled to ask if it's the right path for the country.”
Mr Grayling's comments come after it was revealed the Tories have asked businesses to sign secretive agreements over the impact of its Brexit plans on Britain's borders.
According to Sky News the the government have asked the logistics companies which operate the borders to sign "many dozens" of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs).
Ministers are understood to have held a series of secret meetings through the Border Co-ordination Group.
The group was set up to gather data on the goods coming in and out of the UK in its trade with the EU.
This information is largely uncollected, as the cargo is never checked within the single market and customs union.
But more recently these meetings were reportedly used to ask various industry groups to examine how trade at Britain's borders could be impacted by different Brexit scenarios.
This includes a so-called no deal which would mean the tariff and non-tariff barriers and likely increase delays and checks at the border.
Meg Hillier MP, the chair of the Public Accounts Committee described the government's actions as "extremely unusual" and "a sign of Government paranoia".