Drinkers demand beer duty cut in Chancellor’s upcoming Budget to help keep pubs open

DRINKERS are demanding a beer duty cut in the Chancellor’s upcoming Budget — to help keep pubs open.

More than 120,000 have signed a petition by the Long Live the Local campaign to cut tax which is planned to rise between 2p and 4p.

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Without a cut or freeze by Chancellor Sajid Javid, duty will go up in line with inflation.

Campaigners say Brits travelling abroad pay far less.

Tourists in Spain fancying a pint pay just 5p in duty.

It’s 10p in Portugal and 19p in France.

In the UK it is 54.2p.

Only Finland, at 81p, and Ireland, at 57p, pay more.

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David Cunningham, of the Long Live the Local Campaign, said duty had risen 60 per cent in the last 18 years. He said: “With seven in ten alcoholic drinks served in pubs being a beer, this puts pressure on price and margin.”

Brigid Simmonds, of The British Beer & Pub Association, said an increase would be “another nail in the coffin for UK pubs”.

HM Treasury said: “We have cut or frozen beer duty at six of the last seven Budgets.”