Pubs trade body fears one-in-three jobs at risk and a quarter of pubs under threat of closing permanently
Nearly 300,000 jobs in the ailing hospitality trade will be lost unless the government moves quickly to save them with a sector-specific bailout, some of the industry’s largest pubs and restaurant groups have warned the prime minister.
With venues subject to restricted capacity and a controversial 10pm curfew, industry trade body the British Beer & Pubs Association forecast a jobs bloodbath.