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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Nicholas Cecil and Rachael Burford

'Carry on as normal,' Starmer tells Britain as Trump's Iran war triggers oil crisis rocking economies

Sir Keir Starmer told people in Britain to carry on working, driving and filling up with petrol as normal as global energy chiefs issued a ten-point emergency plan to cut oil use.

The International Energy Agency published a range of actions that governments, businesses and households can take to limit the economic impacts on consumers from the oil crisis sparked by Donald Trump’s war on Iran.

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