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Evening Standard
Alex Daniel and Jonathan Prynn

Former Waitrose boss attacks "extraordinarily penal" NI reforms

Lord Mark Price ran Waitrose for a decade (Waitrose/PA) - (PA Media)

One of Britain’s most respected retail bosses today hit out at what he described as the “extraordinarily penal” increases in National Insurance costs for many employers.

Lord Mark Price, who was managing director of Waitrose from 2006 to 2016, and also served as a Tory trade minister from 2016 to 2017, made his comments at the ICAS CA Summit in central London.

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