- September 28, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
Many people have been panic buying as a shortage of lorry drivers means petrol stations across the … [+] UK are unable to receive fuel deliveries.
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Boris Johnson and his colleagues in the U.K.’s Conservative government must go to bed each night wondering what surprise the next morning is going to throw up. A man who came to power on the back of the simple claim that he would “get Brexit done” has found himself repeatedly having to react to new crises. The coronavirus pandemic is, of course, the most important. But there have been plenty of others that would have tested many another government — the continuing influx of immigrants across the English Channel, the fall-out from the U.S. decision to pull out of Afghanistan and, now, the collapse of several small domestic energy providers on the back of a sudden surge in the price of gas, which has combined with panic buying of automobile fuel on the…
