Pub boss calls for business rates reform

One of the country top pub bosses has joined the call for a review of business rates and VAT. Marston’s chief executive officer Ralph Findlay said: "The last 16 months have been extremely difficult, but we are delighted to be fully open again albeit taking our responsibilities seriously whist striving to offer our guests a genuine but safe pub experience. “Pubs are social spaces, and for pubs to prosper we need to be able to offer conviviality, sociability and a plac......