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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Dan Haygarth

‘We are dreading what will come’: Inside the battle for Britain’s pubs as they brace for the Budget

There is only one thing on Fiona Hornsby’s mind as she readies her pubs for the busy Christmas period - and it’s not the throngs of happy revellers celebrating the festive season in the coming months.

Instead she, like many publicans across the country, is nervously looking ahead just a few days to Rachel Reeves’s Budget on Wednesday.

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