U.K. puts army tanker drivers on standby to help with fuel shortages

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : The haulage industry says the U.K. is short as many as 100,000 truckers, due to a perfect storm of factors including the coronavirus pandemic, an aging workforce and an exodus of foreign workers following Britain's departure from the European Union last year.
57% : Olaf Scholz, leader of Germany's Social Democrats, the party that came first in the country's election on Sunday, also linked Britain's worker shortages to Brexit.
46% : Radu Dinescu, general secretary of the National Union of Road Transporters in Romania, said Romanian drivers -- who worked in the U.K. in large numbers before Brexit -- now "prefer EU stability.
45% : "The free movement of labor is part of the European Union, and we worked very hard to convince the British to not leave the union," he said.

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