David Lewis has shocked the City by quitting Tesco. What’s next on the menu for the revived retail titan?

The supermarket that ate Britain has recovered from its indigestion under Lewis, writes James Moore. Investors will want his replacement to chow down on growth

Tesco CEO David Lewis has revived the business (Getty)

Britain’s ongoing political crisis has rather eclipsed a fairly frenetic series of City announcements in recent days. But even the Conservative conference speech by Britain’s vandal prime minister couldn’t entirely overshadow the one from Tesco.

David Lewis, the man who cured the supermarket that ate Britain of a horrible case of indigestion and got it chowing down again (up to a point), is set to depart in a move almost no one saw coming.

There’d been none of the usual speculation about successors and careful prepping of the ground one often sees in the run-up to the exit of a longstanding and successful CEO.