British troops on standby as truck driver crisis deepens, and people panic-buy fuel – The Washington Post

In the meantime, there is the army and Tobias Ellwood, who chairs Parliament’s Defense Committee, said that British troops are needed now — not tomorrow. “We have gone from 1 percent fuel pump shortages to 90 percent,” he said to Sky News. “So altering people’s buying behavior to prevent the panic buying and going back to previous purchasing patterns requires regaining the confidence of the nation.”