Business and Economics

The supermarket group said it will increase pay for its store assistants and deputy store managers from £12 an hour to £12.40 from June.

It is the latest supermarket group to increase pay rates, ahead of a rise in the national minimum wage in April.

A survey recently found that Generation Z is the cohort which dislikes working from home, and 57% of them want in-person jobs.

“Almost every agricultural challenge has been made more difficult by Brexit", Best for Britain CEO Naomi Smith said.

"I wasn't sure you could make the start of a recession read like good news, but somehow the BBC managed it", Adam Bienkov said.

Britain had faced an inflation ‘double whammy’ with both a tight jobs market and a trade shock, Megan Greene said.

The ONS estimated that gross domestic product fell by 0.3 per cent in the fourth quarter, following a decline of 0.1 per cent in the previous three months.

The move deals another heavy blow to London’s languishing stock markets.

Britain has “significantly underperformed” compared with the EU and US since the vote to leave in June 2016, Goldman Sachs claims.