Shortages are the only thing we don't seem to be running out of in the UK right now.
Fuel crisis: European newspapers blame Brexit for the UK’s ‘dire situation’ at petrol station pumps
29/09/2021
Newspapers have splashed the UK’s struggle for fuel across their front pages as the Army mobilises to ensure petrol pumps don’t go dry.
NICOLA Sturgeon has insisted that the HGV driver and fuel shortage crisis is a result of Boris Johnson’s “reckless” Brexit policy – and has called for the UK Government to “urgently revisit their entire post-Brexit immigration policy”.
Welsh first minister shreds Tory party’s solution for HGV driver shortage and blames saga on Brexit
29/09/2021
A leading politician has slammed the Conservatives over the HGV lorry driver shortage and claimed that Brexit has played a large role in it.
‘Brexit is responsible… there are no queues for fuel in France or Germany’ – UK Labour MP as troops are trained to deliver petrol supplies
29/09/2021
UK Labour frontbencher David Lammy has blamed Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal for the HGV driver shortage.
The decision to limit immigration at a time of severe market shortages of drivers has escalated a squeeze into a crisis.
IN September 2019, the UK Government made public its list of “reasonable worst case assumptions” in the wake of a no-deal Brexit.
EU's former negotiator Michel Barnier: 'No-one can be surprised' Brexit contributed to fuel crisis
28/09/2021
"Nobody can be surprised. The British government decided to leave the EU, to leave the single market, to leave the customs union. That means mechanic consequences."
Rising energy bills, higher prices and a critical shortage of workers leading to food and fuel supply constraints are threatening to stall Britain's recovery from the pandemic.
Sir Keir Starmer blames fuel 'chaos' on Boris Johnson's 'failure to prepare for Brexit consequences'
28/09/2021
ITV News Political Editor Robert Peston questions Keir Starmer about the fuel crisis and asks how big a role Brexit has played in the chaos seen at forecourts across the country
‘Clear link’ between UK’s exit from EU and shortage of truck drivers, says former negotiator
Thousands of British petrol stations ran out of fuel due to panic buying on Monday, 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...
Labour’s shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves spoke to Channel 4 News ahead of her conference speech. She said she has “no plans whatsoever” to increase income tax adding that Brexit has “played a part” in the shortage of HGV drivers causing fuel shortages and queues at petrol stations across the country.
Gas stations across Great Britain are running dry due to a post-Brexit shortage of truck drivers. The government announced a plan to issue 5,000 temporary visas for truckers.
Next, one of Britain’s biggest clothing retailers, warned it may struggle to deliver its normal service in the run up to Christmas unless the government relaxes post-Brexit immigration rules to allow more workers into the country.
With inflation set to rise, alongside the cost of shopping and transport, the economic fallout will squeeze Britons’ budgets.
UK’s exit from EU ‘no doubt will have been a factor’, transport secretary concedes.
Olaf Scholz, poised to become next chancellor, wades into row over HGV driver shortage.
The government is planning a temporary scheme to make it easier for foreign lorry drivers to work in the UK.
As BP closes sites ... the Road Haulage Association's Rod McKenzie says issues are down to Brexit, the pandemic and a historic shortage
24/09/2021
"#Newsnight was the first TV programme to highlight this in the summer... the government could have acted then." / As BP closes sites due to a lack of lorry drivers, the Road Haulage Association's Rod McKenzie says issues are down to Brexit, the pandemic and a historic shortage
Petrol crisis: Change to Brexit immigration rules in pipeline to ease lorry driver shortage and fuel chaos
24/09/2021
Cross-government emergency meeting expected to agree temporary visas for HGV drivers – and hundreds of military personnel could be making deliveries to fill empty pumps.
The oil giant has warned the Government it will struggle to keep supplies topped up and called on ministers to change jobs rules for drivers.
Motorists and shoppers have been urged not to panic buy fuel and goods as the shortage of lorry drivers hit supplies.
Drivers are being urged by the Government to “buy fuel as normal”, after the lorry driver shortage hit supplies.