No immediate threat to UK gas supplies, says minister after ‘two days left’ reports

Steve Reed says situation in Middle East ‘clearly very concerning’ but there is no ‘cause for undue alarm yet’

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There is no immediate threat to energy supplies in the UK despite rocketing oil prices, a senior minister has said, as Keir Starmer tried to reassure people about the impact of the crisis in the Middle East.

The impact of US-Israeli strikes in Iran, and retaliatory attacks from Tehran elsewhere in the region, was “clearly very concerning”, Steve Reed, the communities secretary said, adding that much depended on how long hostilities continued.