The problem of trying to conduct policy by briefing the media is all too clear clear in the immediate reversal on a putative 'deal' to relax some supermarket regulations in return for voluntary procedures-capping;
Now, the Treasury now saying they were never going to announce such measure tomorrow anyway.....
Whatever one thinks of the policy itself this sort of cack-handedness does nothing to support confidence in the Govt.'s grip on economic policy!
#politics #supermarkets
h/t FT
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