US Midterm Elections Are Driving The UK’s Diesel Crisis | Angela Knight

By Times News

Community Score: 50% | 1.6K views | 2w

0 community ratings: null thumbs up, null thumbs down

“Negotiation with Trump - sometimes it works but an awful lot of times it doesn't. And for him, the most important thing is getting his party to win the midterms.” It will be a "tricky period" for the UK holding just 40 days of diesel reserves if Donald Trump follows through on his threats to ban US diesel exports, says former chief executive of Energy UK, Angela Knight. Angela Knight was speaking to Rosie Wright and Calum Macdonald on Times Radio Breakfast. Listen live every Friday-Sunday, 6-10am. Read the best of our journalism: https://www.thetimes.com/ Listen live to Times Radio: https://www.thetimes.com/radio/live Subscribe to The Times and The Sunday Times YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=timesonlinevideo Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/timesandsundaytimes/ Find us on X: https://x.com/thetimes Find us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thetimes/

Tags: the times, the sunday times, diesel shortage uk, diesel shortages, diesel shortage, diesel shortage 2026, uk fuel shortage, uk diesel, shortage, fuel shortage uk, petrol shortage uk, fuel shortage uk 2026, uk news fuel shortage, diesel, uk diesel prices, diesel prices uk, diesel supply uk, diesal prices uk, disel prices uk, gas shortage