ASDA bosses are set to cut hundreds of jobs after the supermarket chain achieved the worst sales figures among its rivals over Christmas.

Owned by US retail giant Walmart, a company which has come under fire from the Fight for $15 campaign over its low pay and poor employment practice, Asda is set to cut up to 300 jobs at its head office in Leeds, it said yesterday.

The supermarket axed 1,360 middle-management jobs in 2014.