Save our pubs: The landlords calling last orders on Labour
The Daily T
The Telegraph
4.1 • 702 Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
One pub a day closed in 2025, as Labour clobbered the hospitality industry with higher business rates, a National Insurance and minimum wage hike, and an increase in alcohol duty.
With The Telegraph’s Save Our Pubs campaign calling on the Government to cease its assault on the Great British boozer, Camilla and Tim are in to Dorset to meet landlord Andy Lennox who is actively barring Labour MPs from his pubs.
They also speak to celebrity chef, restauranteur and publican Tom Kerridge, who pleads with the government to drop VAT to 10% in order to help the hospitality industry survive.
Read more about The Telegraph's Save Our Pubs campaign
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:06.0 | Today, the Daily Tea is swapping its teapot for a pint as we speak to the landlord Andy Lennox, |
| 0:15.0 | who is so angry about what the Labour government has done to pubs in this country, he's banned those MPs from |
| 0:22.2 | setting foot in this bar. Even Prince William has come out in support of the Great British |
| 0:26.3 | pub and the government, Puritans though they are, says help is on the way but will it be enough |
| 0:31.5 | to save an industry that is on its knees? |
| 0:34.5 | Welcome to the Daily Tea and this Save Our Pub special with me, Camilla Tomini. |
| 0:38.7 | And me, Tim Stanley. |
| 0:52.4 | Tim, we're in the pub. |
| 0:53.6 | We're in the goods yard. In. In not-so-sunny pool, what's happened? This isn't the seaside trip we planned. But on a horrible day like this, where else do you want to be? But a pub where you can have a real fire, real people, two real dogs. Yes. And we're drinking out of pool where? |
| 1:11.7 | Because we're near pool, which of course produces fantastic. Pottery. Oh, yes. We're drinking cups of tea, although the punters around us, because we've assembled some daily tea fans who are drinking, I've got to be honest, alcohol, but it is past noon. It's just gone noon. So that's all right. And we are here really to do a special podcast |
| 1:29.5 | marking our Save Our Pubs campaign. The Telegraph has been campaigning to save pubs, which are closing |
| 1:35.2 | at a rate of one a day, at least. That may be a conservative estimate. And we're joined here by |
| 1:40.4 | landlord Andy Lennox, who has done this extraordinary thing of taking on Labour MPs |
| 1:45.1 | and saying, frankly, in the style of Peggy Mitchell from EastEnders, get out of my pub. |
| 1:53.3 | Why did you do that? Why did you launch this campaign, which you told me earlier, is now being |
| 1:57.9 | supported by 1,500 landlords? Yeah, about 1,500 landlords. To be fair, we've kind of lost count now about how many people are actually doing the campaign. And actually that transcends across restaurants as well, into hotels. I think even hairdressers have joined in as well. So you have barred Labour MPs. How do you know there are Labour MP? |
| 2:18.1 | Do you ID people? |
| 2:19.8 | I mean, this is a funny thing, isn't it? |
| 2:21.4 | It's like, do we have loads of pictures behind the... |
| 2:24.1 | Yes. |
| 2:25.0 | You should have a row of photos of the cabinet. |
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