Shareholders representing just over 67% of the grocer’s stock voted against the board’s remuneration report at Tesco’s annual meeting. It comes after outgoing chief executive Dave Lewis’ pay rose by more than a third to over £6.4m last year.

Following the vote, Tesco said it had no plans to make any immediate changes to the remuneration plan. “Following recent engagement on our remuneration report with a number of our larger shareholders, we have been reassured that the majority agree that the overall outcome of the 2017 [long-term bonus] award is proportionate given the outstanding turnaround delivered by management.”

However, it did recognise ““that a significant number of shareholders had concerns” with the decision to remove Ocado from the rivals list and would publish an update on its plans for the year ahead within six months.