Cuppa Crisis!

Price of tea is set to rocket

- Jerry Lawton

Coronavirus is now threatening the great British cuppa.

The world’s largest tea-producing regions have been locked down to combat the pandemic.

It means the cost of the 100million cups slurped by Brits every day is set to soar.

Buyers are desperately trying to secure stocks of leaves as plantations in Kenya – the UK’s largest tea supplier – and other African countries are hit.