UK Lawmakers Urge Government to Support Pubs With Tax Cuts

Bar staff in PPE pour drinks at the reopening The Toll Gate, a Wetherspoons pub in Hornsey, north London, as CCP virus lockdown restrictions are eased across England, on July 4, 2020. Aaron Chown/PA

More than 100 Conservative MPs have written to Chancellor Rishi Sunak urging him to support pubs cutting beer duty for draught pints.

In a letter to Sunak, the MPs called for the government not to increase alcohol duties in next week’s budget and to cut the tax on draught sales to help pubs compete with supermarkets.