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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Simon Calder

Tourism minister: Britain must boost visitors from home and away

Political pint-pulling: tourism minister Chris Bryant spreading joy with Doom Bar - (DCMS)

“I’ve been cleaning toilets and changing beds, pulling pints, making a very bad cup of cappuccino, and cutting up onions badly.”

Should Chris Bryant ever wish to switch career and move into the hospitality industry, he might want to work on his CV. Yet the tourism minister gets an A for effort. On Wednesday afternoon, I caught up with him at Mylor Sailing School in Cornwall. He had just completed a stint of work experience that had included a hotel in Falmouth and a watersports enterprise just north on Mylor Creek.

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