UK gas stations run dry as trucker shortage sparks hoarding • FRANCE 24 English

Thousands of British #petrol stations ran out of #fuel due to panic buying on Monday (September 27), after days of long queues at #pumps caused by the lorry driver #shortage. Analysts say that, in addition to #Covid, the speed of the #Brexit process bears a lot of responsibility for the crisis – signalling a broader problem in which the rapidity of Britain’s divorce from the EU is impairing the government’s plans to restructure the economy.

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