Next offered hope for the battered high street today as it seemed set to hit profit of £1 billion before long and CEO Simon Wolfson said: “It has been a long time since we started a year in a more positive frame of mind.”
With rents down, costs down and inflation falling, there has been a burst of consumer confidence that could be good for Rishi Sunak’s election prospects, though Wolfson, a Conservative life peer, declined to comment on politics today.
