LONDON: The turnstone is a small wading bird that may be found around the UK’s shoreline. It spends most of its time scrabbling among pebbles for insects, crustaceans, and molluscs. Turnstone is also the name of a secret planning exercise undertaken by the UK government that envisions the worst-case consequences of the Strait of Hormuz closure, which might leave British customers scrambling for food as supplies run low.
The UK is approximately 12,000 kilometers away from the Strait of Hormuz via water, as the container ship or oil tanker travels through the Red water, Suez Canal, and Mediterranean. The possible crisis forming for the country’s stores and shoppers as a result of the Iran conflict is not unusual, but it is an example of the modern world’s interconnectedness and the vulnerability of global “just in time” supply chains.
Details of Exercise Turnstone, which is being conducted by the government’s Cobra emergency committee, were leaked last week, and it was reported yesterday that the prime minister, Sir Keir Starmer, will chair an in-person meeting of the committee on Tuesday.
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