Hundreds of hospitality businesses call on Burnham to lower VAT

Prime Minister Andy Burnham departs 10 Downing Street, London (Stefan Rousseau/PA) - (PA Wire)

More than 800 hospitality businesses have written to the Prime Minister urging him to set out how he will introduce a lower rate of VAT.

The VAT’s The problem campaign has called for the hospitality VAT rate to be reduced from 20% to 10%.