Ashwin Prasad, Tesco's chief commercial officer, joined growing calls for a 'pause' in the Government's implementation of the controversial Budget measures.
Customers have been praised online for their defiant response to Animal Rising campaigners staging a sit-in protest in the meat aisle of a busy supermarket store.
The thieves loaded bottle after bottle of wine into their Ikea bag-for-life as they crouched down in the aisle. The incident took place at Sainsbury's, on Wapping Lane, in London, yesterday afternoon.