The Great Furniture Delay: ‘We’ll be eating Christmas dinner on our camping tables’

Supply chain disruptions have left many UK households waiting months extra for deliveries of sofas and tables

The 800 Townhouse dining table is an elegant, sturdy classic" built for gathering round. Marsha Moore's 20 melamine camping table, with a surface area of less than a square metre, is not, and certainly not where she imagined eating Christmas dinner.

But Moore, a writer who recently moved into an unfurnished flat in London with her husband and son, is one of many Britons trapped in a furniture nightmare before Christmas after deliveries of key pieces such as sofas, tables and beds were delayed by supply chain disruption.