Comment / Snapshot: UK budget overlooks tax factor on driver shortages

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A few thoughts about this week’s UK budget, if readers will forgive the foray into parochialism… for Premium suspects there could be lessons as well as for other governments and their influence on the wider supply chain.

One of the first subjects that UK chancellor of the Exchequer “Dishy” Rishi Sunak touched upon was strained supply chains (hell, even the price of container shipping was mentioned, which is an absolute first from 11 Downing St) and the driver shortage crisis, which ...