Downing St sources say blueprint for longer opening hours is dead in the water after PM fails to win over 26 Tory backbenchersNo 10 has conceded that its plans to relax Sunday trading laws are dead in the water, after David Cameron suffered his biggest Commons defeat since the election at the hands of his own Conservative MPs.
The government’s attempt to let larger shops trade for longer than six hours each Sunday was voted down after 27 Tory backbenchers teamed up with Labour and the SNP.
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Source: theguardian.com