As is the tradition of our UK national press, stories about garden centres made it into their pages over Easter. Alan Roper was interviewed in the Times where he was quoted as saying "I've been through true recessions, and you can trade through it. Garden centres have always had that kind of gift, or slight protection from economic shocks."
In The Telegraph Political Correspondent Amy Gibbons told readers that: "Garden centres are under threat because of Rachel Reeves's "financial vandalism".