Labour MPs have been urged to visit their local pub and find out just how badly their botched business rates reform is hurting the industry.
Andy Slee, chief executive of the Society of Independent Brewers and Associates and former Black Sheep Brewery chairman, said Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ policy was ‘so, so profoundly bad that it must be a mistake’.
Publicans are furious, and about 1,500 have barred Labour MPs from their premises in a growing backlash against Reeves’ Budget.
‘Mistake’: Labour MPs have been urged to visit their local pub and find out just how badly their botched business rates reform is hurting the industry
Slee said the issue is ‘something that would impact every single MP in the House of Commons’ as pubs are ‘at the heart of their constituencies’.
‘I’d encourage Labour MPs to go into their pub and face the music and understand specifically what the consequences of this policy would be,’ he added.
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