Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, and the UK’s supply chain crisis
- UK business confidence collapses as fears of ‘stagflation’ grow
- Nearly half of UK’s independent petrol stations still lack fuel
- Britain facing mass cull of pigs due to butcher shortage
- Energy price cap rises today, squeezing families
One petrol station owner in Surrey has criticised the Government for claiming the situation was now under control.
“It’s like they are gaslighting the public,” the owner told the Daily Telegraph.
“It was chaos [on Wednesday], it was chaos [on Thursday], and it will be chaos [on Friday].”