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Sign up to our free Brexit and beyond email for the latest headlines on what Brexit is meaning for the UK Sign up to our Brexit email for the latest insight Sign up to our Brexit email for the latest insight SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The UK is currently mired in a petrol crisis after a weekend of “frenzied” panic buying at the pumps left half of Britain’s forecourts without fuel and Boris Johnson’s government reportedly considering sending in the Army to resolve the situation. The problem is one of “temporary spikes in customer demand, not a national shortage of fuel”, according to a joint statement signed by a number of leading energy companies like Shell, Exxon Mobil and Greenergy, with industry experts agreeing that the issue is being caused by a lack of HGV drivers on hand to deliver supplies from distribution terminals to roadside service stations and supermarkets, the same shortfall that made for barren aisles and empty shelves in shops this summer as consumer goods went undelivered. “The good news is there is plenty of fuel,” transport secretary Grant Shapps told the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show on Sunday. “What we’re hoping is a lot of people have filled up over the weekend, a lot of people only fill up once a month, that might give us some respite to start to replenish stocks over the next few days.” Across the Channel, France’s European affairs minister Clement Beaune branded Britain’s latest plunge into crisis just more evidence of “the intellectual fraud that was Brexit”.