The major supermarket has hit back at the government's call to freeze prices of everyday essentials as other retail leaders have slammed the idea as "idiotic" and "dangerous"

British supermarkets are set to cap prices on everyday essentials like eggs, bread and milk under bold new government proposals - but ministers say this would not be a return to…

The boss of M&S has dubbed government proposals to urge supermarkets to cap the prices of foods as “completely preposterous”.