Motorists urged not to panic buy fuel; ‘10 days’ to save Christmas – as it happened

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news

• Supply chain crisis: Tories poised to U-turn on foreign worker visas
• AA says no shortage of fuel - no need to panic buy
• But some petrol stations are hit by problems distributing fuel
• BRC: Action needed fast to save Christmas
• Introduction: pressure mounts on government over driver shortage
• Full story: Grant Shapps will do whatever it takes' to fix lorry driver shortage
• Shapps doesn't rule out using army drivers

Labour Party chair Anneliese Dodds has said the UK Government's handling of Brexit was partly to blame for the crisis, by putting extra pressure on the HGV sector.

Speaking to Sky News, Dodds said:

There are shortages of HGV drivers in other countries.

I have to say, however, that there have been big failures in planning for this situation and the additional red tape that has been created, which was not inevitable, it was not an inevitable result of Brexit in many cases, but that hasn't been tackled by Government.

And I think their failure to consider whether they need to ask that Migration Advisory Committee about a different approach to shortage occupations - I really do think they should be engaging with business on this and listening to them."