UK economy still faces major challenges despite return to ‘normality’ | Richard Partington

Freedom day' was supposed to bring business as usual but Nando's is out of chicken and carmakers are low on chips

First there were empty supermarket shelves and pingdemic" staff shortages; now Nando's is out of chicken and the car industry short of chips. It's an unusual state of affairs for a country where normality was supposed to resume a month ago.

After the lifting of most pandemic restrictions on the government's 19 July freedom day", the long hard slog of Covid-19 was meant to be all over bar the shouting. Britain's economic potential would be unleashed, allowing for the fastest growth since the second world war.