‘Panic-buying idiots have lost me income’, says self-employed London electrician

Cars queue for fuel at a BP petrol station in Bracknell, Berkshire (PA)

One worker has said people panic-buying have “directly taken food off the table” of his wife and son, as many struggled to commute without any fuel.

Queues stretched out from petrol stations at the weekend as panic-buying added to fuel supply issues caused by a lack of HGV drivers.