Tomorrow’s Budget could be the most important in years. People and businesses around the country are desperate to know how the Chancellor is going to help them after a long period of high taxes and sluggish growth. If I were Jeremy Hunt, I’d already be dreaming of sitting down with an ice-cold pint on Wednesday night.
But he might struggle to find one. Half of the 10 constituencies with the lowest number of pubs in this country are in London. More establishments here are closing all the time, at a faster rate than anywhere else in the UK, with almost 50 closing in the first half of 2023 alone.
