V important argument from @KwasiKwarteng about ministers attitude to current disruption.
The economy is in a “transition” after brexit away from the “low wage high immigration economy”, some sectors like haulage are resisting and government must “tough it out”
I’m personally “toughing it out” at a car park somewhere in Kent with a near empty tank having tried 6 fuel stations and all empty and about to abandon my car
Status update: closer to equilibrium A than equilibrium B
And like that it’s all sorted and we’re on our way. Fuel deliveries DO come.
I’m told Insulate Britain are causing disruption in Thurrock which is partly behind Kent problems continuing
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NEW: Petrol Retailers Association tells @skynews the situation is stabilising
** "Extreme demand levels witnessed over the weekend has eased"
** Still demand above normal, many sites dry and many groups have forecourts closed
** Move towards equilibrium later in week
@SkyNews ** PRA blames the leak of a private submission of BP to "one of the broadcasters" and that's when they knew panic buying would happen.
@SkyNews ** PRA says that high urban density areas are more likely to have a problem.
** There are issues with HGV driver availability
** the PRA says army workers wont have skills to do key task.
** Oct 27 Spending Review will set Whitehall budgets for 3 years. Cash v tight after health & social care spend
** Secretaries of State were told to submit Spending Review bids at start of THIS week.. hours before the reshuffle
** The some were sacked. But their SR bids stand
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** Treasury therefore believes that Michael Gove's new levelling up department - the Ministry of Housing as was - should keep to the Spending Review bid devised by Robert Jenrick
** Whilst there can be some reprioritising and Whitehall negotiation, scope for change limited
Sky News understands
* The treaty text will contain a reference to Paris, but the reference to specific temperature commitments is disappearing.
* Government sources confirmed that the references to temperature are now “implicit” rather than spelt out in the text of the treaty.