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Sir Peter Bottomley said hiking wages to £110,000 would attract good candidates into the job, because doctors and other highly qualified professionals are currently paid more than a UK MP.

The temporary uplift was introduced to help families through the pandemic but the Government has pushed on with halting it despite widespread opposition from charities, think tanks and unions.

Bloomberg had an interesting piece this week outlining that the United Kingdom is facing a very challenging winter as a number of factors converge. A

Fears that the welfare payments act as a disincentive, as Government battles businesses over paying higher wages to attract British workers

This was supposed to be the year the UK broke free of the European Union and forged ahead as a buccaneering free trader.

Lines of cars snake from gasoline stations. Fights break out among angry motorists trying to get fuel. Grocery staples are out of stock on store shelves.

A confluence of crises has forced the government to deploy soldiers to drive fuel trucks, energy suppliers to go out of business and panicked households to try and fill cupboards.

British families should buy their Christmas dinner in advance and keep it in the freezer, retail experts have warned amid fears supermarkets could run out of festive items including pigs in blankets.

Industry is already warning that the UK government’s measures this week are “too little, too late” to avoid months of further chaos and Christmas disruption.

LONDON -- Britain's government, under increasing pressure to ease a truck driver shortage and supply-chain issues that have left many supermarket shelves depleted and gas pumps dry, said Saturday that it was extending the temporary visas being offered to thousands of foreign truck drivers into next year.