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4 Oct, 4 tweets, 5 min read
🇬🇧⛽ British soldiers have begun delivering #petrol to #fuel stations today after fears over tanker driver shortages led to panic buying and forced the government to offer visa waivers to foreign truckers

#fuelshortages #petrolshortage
🚚🇬🇧 "According to experts, 100,000 HGV drivers are missing, partly they left during the pandemic and didn't come back, others have left because of #Brexit," explains our correspondent in the #UK @BenedictePaviot
@BenedictePaviot "It can be linked directly to the shoddy way in which the post-#Brexit transition has been handled by this government," says our international affairs commentator @dougf24 about the #PetrolShortages in Britain
@BenedictePaviot @dougf24 Has PM Boris Johnson taken any heat for the #petrolshortages?

Our international affairs commentator @dougf24 has more ⤵️

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