Urgent Bid to Protect Pubs and Bars

Pub backs calls for VAT cuts in bid to preserve a ‘British institution’

A community-minded pub is backing calls for VAT cuts for hospitality venues, to allow it to continue to thrive as social hub.

Urgent bid to protect pubs and bars

Bournemouth West MP Jessica Toale is urging residents, landlords and community groups to have their say on a fast-track government consultation to…

Rachel Reeves’s 5% VAT cut on electricity bills will backfire, experts say

Critics believe cut would mostly benefit better-off people with larger homes and increase carbon emissions Proposals being considered by Rachel Reeves to cut tax on electricity bills will backfire, experts have warned, resulting in a giveaway to richer homeowners and undermining the UK’s ...