MA's review of the week
Pubs will exit pandemic as a ‘more loved’ sector than we closed as
The Morning Advertiser's Ed Bedington speaks with Heydon Mizon, joint managing director at McMullen, to reflect on some of the week's biggest headlines.
Further reading:
- 8 in 10 publicans oppose vaccine passport policy - Eight out of 10 licensees oppose Government-proposals to introduce a vaccine passport policy for pubs, according to a poll of The Morning Advertiser (MA) readers.
- 'Vaccine passport proposals unworkable and baseless' - Pubs may need to ask customers for health information if they want to operate without social distancing rules, it has been reported.
- LIVE: MPs vote to extend coronavirus powers - Coronavirus latest: MPs have voted to extend emergency Covid legislation while the pub trade hits back at vaccine passport suggestions.
- McMullen & Sons teams raise over £4k for hospices - Pubs operated by Hertfordshire-based brewer and operator McMullen & Sons have raised more than £4,000 to help eight hospices near to them.
- ‘People will remember how we acted during this time’, says McMullen boss - McMullen & Sons joint managing director Heydon Mizon discusses the nearly 200-year-old brewer and pub operator’s response to the Covid-19 emergency – the latest in a long line of historic storms to be weathered.
- Israel’s green passes and pubs: ‘smart move’ despite staff vaccine ‘absurdity’ - After a recent YouGov survey found that more than half (56%) of Brits support vaccine passports for pub entry, The Morning Advertiser examined how well a similar system has worked in Israel.
- 56% of consumers support vaccine passports for pub entry - More than half (56%) of adults are in favour of proof of immunity against coronavirus, a YouGov survey has found.
- Government to launch review into vaccine passports for entry into pubs - The Government is set to conduct a review into the possibility of using of vaccine passports for entry into pubs.
