Do pubs have a future?
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Pubs may have been given a discount on their business rates bills - but with many landlords still suffering a post-Covid hangover, does it go far enough?
Last year, it was reported that eight pubs are closing in the UK every week - so can anything be done to save the great British boozer?
And is the government solely to blame? After all, the younger generation now seem to prefer lifting weights over necking pints.
Niall is joined by pub landlord Simon Wade and Kate Nicholls, chief executive of UKHospitality.
Producers: Tom Gillespie & Emily Hulme
Editor: Mike Bovill
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| 0:00.0 | Sky News, the full story first. |
| 0:08.4 | Five, four, three, two. |
| 0:12.5 | When was the last time you went down the pub? |
| 0:16.0 | Was it for a Hogmane bash? |
| 0:18.6 | Perhaps one of the watch parties to see which way Faraz voted in the traitors. |
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| 0:28.1 | There are more than a couple of ministers landlords would like to banish, given the |
| 0:32.1 | struggles of the past few years. |
| 0:33.9 | They're not doing anything to help. |
| 0:35.5 | The government has made yet another U-turn. This time |
| 0:38.3 | it's temporary relief to pubs in England and Wales from the worst of planned business rates. |
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