What the world is saying about the UK’s fuel crisis

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Petrol crisis
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As Downing Street tries to extinguish panic over the UK’s fuel crisis, other countries are watching incredulously.

Following days of queues at petrol pumps and reports of fights on garage forecourts, Boris Johnson has insisted that “we are starting to see the situation improve” and has urged Britons to “go about their business in the normal way”.

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