With the general election less than three weeks away, political parties have got put forward policies to help the on-trade if they want votes from the sector.
Leader of the Labour Party Keir Starmer has called on the Government to enforce a “two to three week” national lockdown, closing hospitality venues while keeping schools open.
Shadow business minister Lucy Powell has warned that a ‘blanket approach’ to ending the Government-backed Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme will see more pubs shuttered.
Outgoing chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Save the Pub Group (APPSPG), Greg Mulholland, has said that he is looking to "work together" with the group's new chair, Toby Perkins - despite being ousted by him as group chair.
The Labour party will commit to introducing a mandatory free-of-tie and market-rent-only options for pub tenants if they are not included in this week’s statutory code announcement, the chairman of the Business, Innovations & Skills Committee (BISC)...
The Government must dispense with “ineffective gimmicks such as assets of community value (ACV)” and instead reform the planning system to offer “robust protection” to pubs, a CAMRA officer has said.
The Labour Party has moved to dismiss a suggestion from the Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers (ALMR) that the next Labour Government would use the power of law force pubs to sell healthy food.
Pub property agents have welcomed Ed Miliband’s commitment to freeze business rates for small firms if there is a Labour Government, but are sceptical as to whether it would go ahead.
The Government now faces a major challenge in getting the legislation right over plans for a statutory code of practice and an independent adjudicator, shadow pubs minister Toby Perkins said on breakfast TV show Daybreak this morning.
Cut VAT on food sales and end the beer duty escalator which is “killing our industry” – was the call from British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA) chief executive Brigid Simmonds to Labour politicians earlier this week.
I am delighted to be the Labour Party spokesperson for pubs; I am committed to helping protect our pubs and see the industry thrive. Pubs stimulate local economic growth and provide flexible employment opportunities for thousands of workers around the...
The only major reform Labour or the Tories could bring in is a curfew on pub and club hours. That's the view of licensing expert Peter Coulson in response to Gordon Brown's speech at the Labour Party Conference yesterday.
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