Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox The perfect storm of problems the country faces right now has invited comparisons to the notorious 'Winter of Discontent', but is it an apt comparison? Here, the Manchester Evening News' chief reporter, Neal Keeling, looks back on that era. Queues at petrol stations, and the Army on standby to drive tankers.
Reports of panic buying and pundits talking of "stagflation" - a flat economy and rising inflation. Fear of a COVID resurgence; a huge spike in gas prices; a shortage of carbon dioxide; and thousands about to be unemployed with the end of furlough. READ MORE: More than 600 cars stolen in two months in Greater Manchester - but cops are hitting
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