00:00The UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer says that pubs will be able to stay open for the England
00:04World Cup match taking place at 1am at UK time on Monday. Yes, 1am. He made this announcement
00:10in a post on X. We're making sure that pubs can stay open on Monday morning, early on Monday
00:17morning for the England game. So I know lots of people are making their plans. If you're planning
00:22to watch it in the pub, that is great and it's really good for pubs as well. So come on
00:28England.
00:31This message for the nation. Sam Unstead is with us, co-editor of our Markets Today blog.
00:37He's trying to go out as Mr. Fun, it seems, isn't he? I do want, so this is going to
00:42be
00:42good news for pubs, I suppose, to take the Bloomberg good for business line. Which business is it
00:47good for? It's going to be good for pubs, even on a Sunday night. Yeah, it will be good for
00:51pubs.
00:52No question about that. This is obviously not a time of day. They're not only allowed to sell
00:56to quite literally extending their opening hours by four or five hours at least. So yes,
01:02it is good. We have, though, we went back as the World Cup was starting on the Markets Today blog
01:07into, you know, how much of a boost do pubs actually get from major tournaments? And obviously,
01:12it's a bit dependent on the timing. In this case, you know, as you mentioned, it's going to be 1am
01:15because it's being held, you know, in the Americas. When they're in Europe, there is more of a boost
01:19because the timings match up much more, much more clearly. But actually, it tends to be very
01:24short term. You know, it's a very quick boost. It also depends a little bit on whether England win
01:29and continue going on. The further they go, the better it is for pubs. But generally,
01:33this is a pretty fleeting boost for the pub sector. But even so, it's a pub sector that's been beaten
01:38down quite a bit. So yeah, well, that helped. Win or loss, Anna's concerned about productivity.
01:43On Monday. On Monday. Yeah. I mean, is that a real... Yeah. Is that a real concern?
01:49No, it is. It is. You do see, again, like, they're very fleeting, but you do see little
01:54patterns, you know, in the economic data where you get a little bit of a loss of productivity
01:59either way, you know, whether that... And it doesn't really matter what hours it's in either
02:02because very, very often... Are you going to get off at 1am to watch the game, Sam?
02:06Well, look, Tom, I mean, I'm off next week. So I am considering the logistics of how I would
02:13do that. You've got no excuse, really.
02:14That's it. Everyone is considering, aren't they? Let's see which side of this fence everyone
02:18falls down.
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