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Empty branches of Dorothy Perkins and Burton in King's Lynn town centre in Norfolk
THE Tory government’s “levelling-up” plan for high streets falls far short of what is needed, shopworkers’ union Usdaw said today.
Unveiled by the Prime Minister on Thursday, the plan failed to deliver urgent measures that were needed even before the Covid-19 pandemic, the union said.
Its caution came as a report by former Wickes and Iceland boss Bill Grimsey revealed that independent retailers’ debt mountain had grown fourfold in the last year.
We need a massive change in direction to renew a crumbling health service — that’s why Plaid Cymru has an ambitious plan to recentre primary care by recruiting 500 additional GPs and opening six new elective care hubs across Wales, writes MABON AP GWYNFOR
Incoming Usdaw general secretary JOANNE THOMAS talks to Ben Chacko about workers’ rights, Labour and how to arrest the decline of the high street