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UK sleepwalking into joblessness epidemic, Tesco boss warns

todayFebruary 10, 2026

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Ashwin Prasad says far fewer people in work than there could be and ministers ‘tinkering at the edges’ of problem

The UK is “sleepwalking into a quiet epidemic” of joblessness with millions of people out of work and on benefits, the boss of the nation’s biggest supermarket chain has warned.

Ashwin Prasad, who runs the UK arm of Tesco, said he believed far fewer people were in work than should be and that taxpayers were spending “an ever increasing proportion of our national income on out-of-work benefits”.

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