Irish truckers seek immediate extension of Brexit ‘connectivity’ agreement, as Johnson visits Berlin and Paris

The Brexit crisis could be cooled somewhat if the EU and UK were to immediately extend a transit or connectivity accord beyond its expiry date at the end of December, the head of the Irish hauliers business group has said.

Aidan Flynn, general manager at the Freight Transport Association Ireland, said that chaos still looms for road transport and truckers in Ireland and the UK under a crash-out Brexit at Halloween, but that extending the ‘connectivity agreement’ which allows trucks to move through the UK into the rest of the EU would help remove some of the huge tailbacks that a hard Brexit entails.