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Evening Standard
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Jonathan Prynn

Furious Fuller's bosses say NI hikes will hit hospitality but leave the City "untouched"

The Churchill Arms in Notting Hill is a Fuller’s pub - (Press handout)

The chair of London pub operator Fuller, Smith & Turner today lashed out at the Chancellor’s National Insurance reforms warning they will inflict “particular pain” on the hospitality sector while leaving big City firms “almost completely untouched.”

Michael Turner, a descendent of one of the three founding families of the Chiswick based company, said the “unintended consequences” of Rachel Reeves’s raid on employers will be “ to drive inflation higher, put pressure on wages, and will drive many businesses to the wall.”

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