Industry body says businesses and jobs at risk unless Rachel Reeves’s tax changes delayed or alteredThe hospitality industry will incur an extra £1bn of costs for 774,000 of its workers who will be newly eligible for...
Read MoreGovernment to shut £150m community ownership fund despite millions of pounds remaining unallocatedEditorial: ‘community right to buy’ – unleashing the power of the localA state-funded scheme that has...
Read MoreParliamentary bill will also ban the advertising of vapes and restrict their flavours, packaging and marketingSmoking is set to be banned outside schools and hospitals as part of a crackdown on one of the UK’s biggest...
Read MoreJoint statement by lobby groups calls on chancellor to make Covid-era rates relief for hospitality permanentReeves could make it easier for pubs to sell beers from local breweriesThe Guardian view on ‘indie beer’:...
Read MoreChancellor considering how to increase access to pubs for small brewers and may announce industry consultationThe government is considering making it easier for pubs to serve independent, local beers as the chancellor looks for...
Read MoreTim Martin criticises schooner suggestion and urges UK government not to restrict pub licensing hoursThe boss of Wetherspoon’s has urged the UK government not to heed calls to restrict pub licensing hours or swap pint...
Read MoreEsther McVey quoted poem about complicity in Holocaust to criticise Labour plan to end smoking in beer gardensThe Conservative MP Esther McVey has been urged to “get a grip” after she posted a poem about the...
Read MoreLeaked Whitehall documents reveal plans to extend indoor smoking ban to certain outside spaces, such as pub gardensUK politics live – latest updatesKeir Starmer has not ruled out the idea of smoking being banned in some...
Read MoreLeaked Whitehall documents reveal plans to extend indoor smoking ban to a number of open-air spacesSmoking could be banned in pub gardens, outdoor restaurants, outside hospitals and at sports grounds in the UK under tighter...
Read MoreExclusive: Cornwall Insight data shows small businesses paying over £5k extra a year than before energy crisis in 2021Ministers have been urged to intervene to prevent businesses struggling with gas and electricity costs...
Read MoreHospitality trade says chancellor failed to help save sector with VAT cut, while travel industry laments air duty riseBudget: key points at a glanceThe chancellor has been accused of producing a “cut and paste”...
Read MoreNew trade barriers were compounded by Covid and tax changesKimi Karjalainen and his brother Marko poured their life savings into Bone Machine Brewing Co when it opened in Pocklington, East Yorkshire, in 2017 before moving to...
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