Could this be the man to turn around John Lewis' fortunes? Former Tesco boss who failed his maths GCSE before joining supermarket as a grad student and working his way up to chief executive takes over as department chain's new chairman

Jason Tarry, 56, joined Tesco in 1990 and held roles at Britain's biggest supermarket such as bakery category director, chief product officer and clothing chief executive.

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