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Responding to an escalating crisis, Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain reversed course this weekend and offered thousands of visas to foreign truckers to combat a driver shortage that has left some supermarket shelves empty and caused long lines at gas stations. ...Since January, after Britain completed the final stage of Brexit, employers have been unable to freely recruit European workers, as was previously the case. The coronavirus pandemic has also exacerbated the crisis that stems from a long-term shortage of British truck drivers. The British Department for Transport said in a statement that 5,000 fuel tanker and food truck...

Boris Johnson and Lord Tebbit have hit out at Barack Obama’s anti-BP rhetoric, adding to pressure on David Cameron to intervene. The Prime Minister is facing growing calls to defend the British-based multinational against increasingly outspoken attacks by the U.S. President over the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The London Mayor said BP was paying 'a very,very heavy price' for what had been an accident, and pointed out that UK pension funds had a 'huge exposure' to BP. And Lord Tebbit, a former trade and industry secretary, suggested the U.S. President was attacking BP to distract from his...