Lets get more from our political correspondent, iain watson, whos in the newsroom. Just tremendous of the background of where we are today. The just tremendous of the background of where we are today. Where we are today. The socket on the aer where we are today. The socket on the paper in where we are today. The socket on the paper in the where we are today. The socket on the paper in the times where we are today. The socket on the paper in the Times Newspaperl the paper in the Times Newspaper reported a bizarre story where, last december, apparently, according to the times, had met a local official in his party at 315 in the morning demanding £5,000 what she said as A Matter Of Life And Death because she had to be released from a flat in which he was locked by some bad people. In addition to this, the Times Newspaper also alleged that some other funds that were meant to be used for a company will use for private medical bills for mr menzies as well. He told the Times Newspaper that h
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it is easy to forget how many cars rely on microchips which control almost everything in the car. so, a global shortage as a result of the pandemic meant lots of factories went off line, they weren t shipping as many, now they are playing catch up as many, now they are playing catch up which means not enough new cars are being made or sold. at the same time, the number of electric cars has risen sharply. given everything we have talked about, petrol shortages, given everything we have talked about, petrolshortages, huge queues at stations, people are opting for electric, but in a similar parallel there is concern there aren t enough charging points for electric cars. you might see a queue for a charging point in the way we are seeing queues for petrol stations. let us get thoughts from james from the society of motor manufacturers and traders. let us talk first about the
almost 5 million barrels pass through it shipping or beneath it through the panama-suez suez mediterranean pipeline, almost 5 million barrels and the world supply of oil is so delicate, supply/demand balance that any disruption would cause prices to spike and we saw that on friday and they are holding and are waiting to see what will happen the next couple of days and tomorrow, especially you pointed out with p. j. crowley, what will happen when there could be a million protesters in the streets and they are smart, though, bill, one thing they ve done is lined the suez canally with tanks and are trying to make sure shipping goes through and one last point before you go is, maris, one of the biggest shippers is stopping all shipping through the canal right now, to see how things play out and it could and raw numbers, a million barrels a day from north to south, 800 barrels a day from south to north. and also, the pipeline that runs from suez canal, west of the