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"Closing the borders" is a bit too literal and binary.
NZ and Aus haven't completely closed their borders, you just have to fulfill certain criteria to be allowed in and also to put up with testing and an enforced isolation upon arrival.
Freight import/export is certainly a problem for the UK, but there are ways to limit the people coming and going. Maybe freight is a necessity. But allowing one thing doesn't mean that everyone is therefore free to come and go as they please, nor does the freight have to be (un-)managed in the same way it is now.
If someone says "close the borders" to me, I doubt they mean a complete and utter closure, since no country has really done that.