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GOVERNMENT plans to devolve Sunday trading powers will cost almost 3,270 jobs, small retailers said yesterday.
The Tories’ blueprint will see decision-making on big stores’ Sunday opening hours handed to local councils.
But the Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) said any extension of Sunday opening for big stores would also cost small high street shops more than £870 million, because business would be transferred to supermarkets and out-of-town shopping centres.
In part II of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY explores how witch-hunting drives took hold in the Civil Service as the cold war emerged in the wake of WWII
Holding office in local government is a poisoned chalice for a party that bases its electoral appeal around issues where it has no power whatsoever, argues NICK WRIGHT
Incoming Usdaw general secretary JOANNE THOMAS talks to Ben Chacko about workers’ rights, Labour and how to arrest the decline of the high street
GLYN ROBBINS celebrates how tenant-led campaigning forced the government to drop Pay to Stay, fixed-term tenancies and council home sell-offs under Cameron — but warns that Labour’s faith in private developers will require renewed resistance