Kit Malthouse, recently installed as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, chaired the cross-department meeting, which included ministers from the Department for Transport, Home Office, Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.
Ministers were also joined by senior officials from UK Border Force, the National Police Coordination Centre and the Kent Resilience Forum, which managed the local impact of last weekend’s disruption at Dover and Folkestone.
