Sunday trading: SNP helps protect English credit cards from their owners

David Cameron lost his bid to extend Sunday trading after SNP and Tory rebels teamed up against him. I, for one, was delighted

I quite like shopping. But even I can see that it has become a dysfunctional feature of modern life, ubiquitous and, for some, compulsive. Frantic scenes during the January sales can look like legalised looting. So when the government dreamed up spurious reasons for a further relaxation of the Sunday trading laws in England and Wales, I assumed George Osborne must want to stimulate spending for tax-grabbing reasons.

Daft or what? In good times as well as bad, there is only so much money to go round, only so much credit we can each rack up, only much “stuff” we can cram into our ever smaller homes without having to throw out some of the stuff we bought last year.

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