A record 449 British pubs and bars have entered liquidation or administration in the first ten months of this year, City A.M analysis shows. The highest figure in more than 20 years…
Restaurants are also under pressure, with a record 1,440 closures in the same period – 125% higher than a decade ago. Wetherspoon founder Tim Martin said:
“Increased labour costs are, consequently, dramatically widening the pricing differential between pubs and supermarkets, to the anger and consternation of customers.”
And this is before Reeves imposes yet another tax raid this month. Things can only get bitter…
Justice minister Alex Davies-Jones told the Today Programme it wasn’t ‘appropriate’ to ask whether or not David Lammy was shopping prior to DPMQs instead of trying to sort out the released prisoner:
“He was preparing for Deputy Prime Minister’s Questions. He was preparing to stand in for the Prime Minister, the first ever black person to do so… He cracked a joke because his poppy had fallen off this suit, which he also addressed during the Deputy Prime Minister’s Questions… I don’t think it’s appropriate to get into the weeds of if he was shopping or not in the morning.”