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Britain’s winter blues: ‘Christmas shortages are now a certainty’

From petrol, gas and food supplies to hospitals under pressure, the UK could face a series of overlapping crises

Some crises come with plenty of advance warning.

More than three months before brawls broke out on Britain’s petrol station forecourts this week and pictures of empty supermarket shelves filled the newspaper front pages, industry chiefs met government ministers to warn of a supply-chain crisis.

The executives came to the June meeting armed with a list of potential fixes: temporary visas to recruit overseas HGV drivers; action to clear the Covid-19 driving test backlog; extended driver hours; and a campaign by the government to urge retired British HGV-licence holders to get back behind the wheel.

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