SHORE POWER CONSULTATION IS A POSITIVE STEP, BUT NO VOTE OF CONFIDENCE

摘要

You could be forgiven for not being aware - and apologies to our international readers if this Editorial Comment is somewhat parochial - but on the morning of 31 January, hours before blustering his way through his statement to Parliament in response to Sue Gray's report into lockdown parties at Downing Street, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson could be seen careering around Tilbury Docks, Essex, in a forklift. He was officially there to open Tilbury 2, the UK's largest freight ferry terminal and proclaimed by Johnson as a symbol of the new opportunities created by post-Brexit Britain. Not to mention a photo opportunity that probably didn't prove as much of a distraction as he would have liked.