UK government says it may draft in the army to help deliver gas after shortages caused by a scarcity of truck drivers forced the closure of stations across the country.
means that many countries are facing supply chain problems, as manufacturing centers in Asia are hit by continuing cases and restrictions.
And Britain has been hit harder than most because it has much less natural gas in storage than many other European countries. But the government has denied it could see a rerun of the"winter of discontent" of 1979, a year of labor strikes, high inflation, garbage sacks piling up in the streets and other parts of the country grinding to a halt.
"There is no question of the lights going out, of people being unable to heat their homes. There will be no three-day working week, or a throwback to the 1970s," Energy Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng told Parliament last week.
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