A former boss of Marks & Spencer has branded Andy Burnham‘s plan to save high streets as ‘a lot of b******s about nothing’.
Lord Stuart Rose, who is also a former chairman of Asda, criticised the Prime Minister’s proposals as ‘a lot of hot air’.
Mr Burnham has pledged a crackdown on the setting up of new betting and vape shops to turn around ‘hollowed out’ high streets.
The PM has announced changes to planning policy to ‘give local communities the power to turn things around’.
But Lord Rose, a Tory peer, said the action would do nothing to revive town centres without also
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