Shortage of skilled drivers causes petrol station queues, while ONS says customers cannot buy all the food they want
Significant disruption to Christmas is “inevitable” unless the government fixes an acute shortage of lorry drivers in the next 10 days, the UK retail industry body has warned, as queues formed at petrol stations and official statistics showed shoppers could not find the food they wanted.
The British Retail Consortium said the lack of HGV drivers had left the country without the “glue” that held crucial supply chains of food and goods together.
