The pub industry is urging the Prime Minister to let them know by Friday if they can open next month instead of keeping them in "limbo".
Chief executives of leading brewers and pub operators wrote to Boris Johnson to warn him that the sector has reached "crisis point" and needs to know that they can open from July 4.
The companies include international, regional, family and independent brewers, as well and national and regional pub operators who collectively brew 90% of the beer in Britain and own 20,000 pubs.
Hundreds of thousands of jobs could be lost and pubs could close permanently unless the Government confirms the July 4 date, the PM was warned.
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