TESCO was accused of taking advantage of the cost-of-living crisis today after its chief executive’s pay packet doubled to £9.9 million.

Ken Murphy’s £5m year-on-year wage increase in the year to February was a “slap in the face to the millions of struggling workers and their families who paid for it through higher food bills,” the Unite union said.

“The fact is Tesco has taken advantage of the cost-of-living crisis to rake in obscene profits and it is far from the only one.”