Our pubs are in trouble. Last year they were forced to pour 87 million pints down the drain because of trading restrictions and lockdowns.
Beer sales were hit by 56%, worth £7.8billion and now there are growing concerns beer duty will be increased in the March budget.
After an incredibly difficult year, the Long Live The Local campaign says a rise in beer duty - already three times higher on average than Europe - will be the death of British pubs.
Almost 2,000 pubs closed their doors for good in 2020 – that’s five pubs every single day. Here, model-turned publican Jodie Kidd, landlady of The Half Moon in Kirdford, West Sussex, urges the Tories to do more to save our pubs...
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