Business and Economics

The increase in searches was revealed as the firm said a product review of new partner M&S found its prices are the same as or cheaper than Waitrose.

After a decade of Conservative rule, the UK economy is the weakest since the global crash of 2009.

The stark warning comes as Boris Johnson’s election slogan that he will get Brexit done by January is being rounded on as a misleading slogan as his plans will lead to years of Brexit negotiations and uncertainty.

By L Alan Winters, Professor of Economics and Director of the UK Trade Policy Observatory at University of Sussex and former Chief Economist at the Department for International Development

The notable economists argue that after “ten years of near zero productivity growth” and “public services under intolerable strain” which a “hard Brexit would only make worse,” Britain needs the “serious injection of public investment that the Labour Party manifesto promises.

In a dire warning the IFS added: “even in 2023–24 day-to-day spending on public services outside of health would still be almost 15 per cent lower in real terms that it was at the start of the 2010s."

"Amazon is owned by one of the richest people on the planet but it refuses to treat its workers with dignity and respect", he said.

Contrary to widespread perceptions, the economy performs no worse under Labour than under the Tories—by some measures it does much better.

Retailers have already closed 5,834 shops in 2019, up 77 per cent on the whole of last year.