1,000 Pubs Join Anti-Labour MP Protest Over Higher Business Rates
22nd December 2025
More than one thousand pubs are thought to have barred Labour politicians in a protest over higher business rates, campaigners have said.
Rachel Reeves’s local pub in her Leeds West & Pudsey constituency, the Marsh Inn, became the latest to join the ranks of the No Labour MPs protest this weekend.
UK Hospitality has warned that business rates for the average pub will increase 76 per cent after the chancellor’s changes, which could lead to some closures.
Can you imagine any American bar refusing service to Democrat members of Congress because they increased business taxes?