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Opinion: We can revolutionise the UK pub industry

By Nick Love | Mon 2nd June 2014 - 9:05 am

The Vine Beer FestivalIf the Lib Dems are sincere about the “fairer society” as part of our slogan or elevator pitch or whatever you want to call it, then there is something tangible we can deliver in this current parliament that would have a direct and profound effect on many people’s lives.

We are in the midst of a major offensive against the insidious practices of the large national pub companies (pubcos), with CAMRA, politicians and other consumer groups petitioning the government for wide reaching legislation that would revolutionise the pub industry in the UK for the first time for decades.

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