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Trucker shortages have been blamed for all manner of economic hardships in the UK, from

toilet paper scarcities to long petrol station queues, our columnists discuss basket case

Britain, as well as Asian casinos and investment banks.

Tune in.

Welcome to the Views from. I'm Rob Cox, the editor of Breaking Views, financial commentary

arm of Reuters News, coming to you this week from Milan.

Britain looks like a bit of a basket case, as a shortage of truck drivers has been blamed for a variety of economic ills. These include

long queues at petrol stations and even empty shells that should be filled with, among other

things, toilet paper. A lot of this can be blamed on the UK's decision to leave the European

Union and the country's tightening of immigration rules, but there are other factors at work too,

as Ed Crawley and Putathle Larson in London explained.

After that, I chat with Jen Hughes and Katrina Hamlin in Hong Kong about gambling and investment banking.

For the avoidance of doubt, we are not calling investment banks casinos,

rather discussing the latest from the renewal of gambling licenses in Macau, the Chinese territory,

and the retirement of one of China's best-known ray makers.

Give a listen.

So Britain looks to be a bit of a basket case.

Electricity is in short supply, petrol stations,

there's huge queues, and even toilet paper

seems to be hard to find. Ed Cropley, you've written

about some of these issues. Try to pull it all together. What's what kind of basket case is

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