Conservative MPs and retailers have hit out at UK government plans to encourage supermarkets to cap the price of food staples, in a fierce backlash.
Health secretary Steve Barclay said on Sunday that ministers were in talks with retailers about how to “address the very real concerns” many Britons harbour about food inflation and the cost of living, including the possibility of introducing voluntary price caps.
Barclay told the BBC that the government was “working constructively” with supermarkets.
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