00:00It's a community asset and what would Britain be without a pub?
00:04Business rates are coming and pubs are basically looking like they're completely screwed.
00:08The government needs money and it's picking on hospitality to try and make it.
00:12Pubs have only just got out of the Covid relief.
00:15They're now facing huge, huge increases and it's not just across the country.
00:20It's kind of looking like a bloodbath even in central London.
00:24There are places in Soho who are basically looking like they're going to pay £100,000 more on rates
00:28which means they're going to pay about £47,000, £50,000 more in tax.
00:33And although the government said that they're thinking about doing a U-turn,
00:37nothing's been confirmed yet.
00:39I think we're on the cusp of losing a great British institution that people can afford,
00:45which is pretty frightening.
00:46I think a minister of hospitality would be good.
00:49That was an idea.
00:50As you say, they need to talk to publicans and the government.
00:54They don't understand hospitality at all.
00:56I don't think no government has.
00:58And it's interesting because that would be a quite clear and simple way
01:03for the industry to have a voice in Parliament.
01:07People like Rachel Reeves to actually kind of get her head around stuff.
01:11The pub is an easy win to say but it's the lifeblood, isn't it?
01:14It's a community asset and what would Britain be without a pub?
01:18It's a community asset and what's the country's first thing to say.
01:23We're not allowed to say.
01:25We're not allowed to say.
01:25We're not allowed to say.
01:26We're not allowed to say.
01:27We're not allowed to say.
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