John Lewis unveils first-ever half-year loss

Retail chain’s boss also issues no-deal Brexit warning, saying it would be unable to offset impactLatest Brexit developments – live updatesJohn Lewis has warned a no-deal Brexit would have a significant impact on its business as it slumped to its first-ever half-year loss.The group, which owns Waitrose and the John Lewis department stores, dived £25.9m into the red in the six months to 27 July after making an underlying pretax profit of £800,000 in the same period a year