Burnham offers 20% cut in business rates for pubs, clubs and live music in England – UK politics live

Andy Burnham said it was time to support vanishing “cherished local spaces” with his business rates reduction. The prime minister wrote on X: double quotation mark I’m giving thousands of pubs, clubs and music venues a 20% cut in business rates. I won’t stand by while these cherished local spaces disappear, replaced by boarded-up windows and ‘For Sale’ signs. They’re the heart of our communities and it’s time we backed them.