New figures from the Night Time Economy Monitor show one in four late night venues has shut since 2020, with closures accelerating to three every week in just the last year. Nearly 800 nighttime businesses have closed their doors since the pandemic…
The Night Time Industries Association (NTIA) is now warning of “night time deserts” spreading across Britain. The industry has shrunk at almost double the rate of the wider hospitality trade in the last five years; London has lost a fifth of its late night venues, now down to 343. Birmingham has been hit even harder, with a 27 percent drop. Even a famous music city like Liverpool is seeing a steady decline…
The accelerating decline in the last few months is no accident. National insurance on hiring staff is higher, business rates are rising, and conditions are unlikely to improve at the omnishambles budget in the autumn. Meanwhile, Sadiq Khan is boasting about London’s “world-leading” nightlife, even though it’s virtually impossible to order a drink in the capital after about 10pm. For some reason City Hall has no plans to find a new Night Czar. But the last one was clearly such a success…
Red Wall Labour backbencher Jonathan Brash told GB News that Starmer should resign:
“I’m completely fed up about it, and I think it’s got to the point now where I genuinely think that, as far as the Prime Minister is concerned, it’s not a case of if, it’s when.”