Vote on Co-op future after losses

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The Co-op faces a critical poll on its future today when key principles on radical reform of the troubled mutual go to the vote at a special meeting.

Former City minister Lord Myners has proposed a major shake-up of the food-to-funerals business after a disastrous period saw it slump to a £2.5 billion annual loss - its worst ever - in 2013.