Date 1 August 2011
Last month I wrote about the Government’s appointment of Mary Portas, the Retail Tsarina, to carry out a review aimed at “halting the decline of the High Street” with particular emphasis on clone towns and vacancy rates. Now the Labour Party have launched a 4 point plan to “put the heart back into Britain’s High Streets”. The announcement on their website is, unsurprisingly, full of criticism of the “Tory-led Government” and its “VAT hike” but it’s worth looking beyond the party political posturing at their ideas.
The four-point plan includes the following: VAT, Diversity, Competition and Innovation.
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