Leading pub and brewery bosses are warning of time being called within months on the nation’s locals amid energy price hikes of up to 400%.
The heads of six of the UK’s biggest companies fear soaring costs are more of a danger to the great British institution than the Covid crisis, when pubs were forced to remain shut for long spells.
With looming closures and the threat of job losses, business leaders have signed an open letter to the Government urging it to act now to avoid “real and serious irreversible” damage to the industry.