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To prevent a shortage of meat, which relies on carbon dioxide in its packaging, the government gave millions of taxpayers’ money to an American company to reopen a fertiliser works at Stockton, Co. Durham, that produces the gas as a by-product. The plant had been shut down because of a rise in wholesale gas prices caused by calm weather preventing rival wind-energy production, a fire at an interconnector reducing electricity supplies from France, and Russia putting up the price of its gas exports. Gas-supply companies began to go bust because the government price-cap prevented them from charging as much as they paid for gas. There was clamour for money from the government, either for gas companies or to keep down consumers’ bills next year. Meanwhile, Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, was in New York trying to persuade foreign countries to use less gas and other fossil fuels. Jimmy Greaves, the great England and Tottenham goal-scorer, died aged 81.
Coronavirus regulations for foreign travel were simplified by the abolition of the amber category for countries; vaccinated travellers from green countries would no longer need a coronavirus test before returning to Britain.
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