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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Jonathan Prynn

Budget could cost hospitality another 100,000 jobs warns industry boss

Britain’s hard pressed hospitality industry could lose another 100,000 jobs as a result of last month’s Budget, a leading trade body boss warned today.

Allen Simpson, the chief executive of UKHospitality, said it was “entirely plausible” that a shake out on that scale would follow the Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s announcements on the minimum wage and business rates with youth employment bearing the brunt.

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