THE decision by MPs this week to overhaul pub management rules could provide a huge boost to the industry.
Allowing licensees to demand a “market-rent-only” agreement will mean they can make a fairer profit, will let more pubs will be able to stock the local beers they want to and will therefore meanoffer better choice to customers.
This is potentially fantastic news. Our pubs need all the support they can get. It is time that politicians, locally and nationally, did more to help.
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