Prime minister challenged by pub landlord as he promotes changes to alcohol duty at London beer festival

As a teetotaller who even dislikes the taste of alcohol-free beer, Rishi Sunak is not commonly seen in pubs. His visit to a beer festival might thus have provided the prime minister with the important lesson that a landlord always has the last say.

In another all-round-awkward photoshoot for Sunak, he mistakenly referred to himself as the chancellor, his last job, before he was loudly heckled while pulling a pint of Black Dub stout at the Great British Beer Festival in west London.

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