Harold Wilson

Ex-pubs minister's anger at funding axe

31-Aug-2010

Former pubs minister John Healey has slammed the coalition government for axing measures he introduced to help community pubs. The Labour MP...

Market ahead of politicians

23-Apr-2010 By Gemma McKenna

Laws forcing pubco reform may not see the light of day until April 2014, according to CGA Strategy chief executive Jon Collins. He highlighted the...

Callaghan buys five Yesteryear sites

23-Feb-2010 By The PMA Team

The former owner of Wigan-based Yesteryear Pub Company, is understood to have bought five of the ten sites that went in to administration.

Put your question to licensing minister

19-Feb-2010 By John Harrington

Morning Advertiser readers have an exclusive chance to put their questions to licensing minister Gerry Sutcliffe. So if you want to know his views...

Do it right to escape a mandatory code

09-Jul-2009 By John Grogan

Who could have predicted six months ago that Punch Taverns and pubco representatives would sit down in the same room as Fair Pint, says John Grogan.

Anti-tax mascot and friends hit Parliament

08-Apr-2009 By James Wilmore

Industry efforts to stop further beer duty hikes in the Budget have been stepped up today with a parliamentary protest by a group of cartoon pint...

MyShout

18-Oct-2007

The delay of the general election carries mixed implications for the trade, says John Grogan MP My late father's political hero Harold Wilson's...

Merit in Harold Wilson brewery plan

05-Jan-2006 By Roger Protz (columnist)

Government documents from 1975, released under the '30-year rule' last month, reveal a plan by former Labour PM Harold Wilson to save small breweries...

Legal advice: Identity Cards Bill likely to be defeated

18-Mar-2005

By thePublican.com's team of legal experts at London solicitors Joelson Wilson.Here's another sensitive political issue - identity cards. Despite the...

Stock market overreacts to retailers' doldrums

12-Dec-2002

Former Prime Minister Harold Wilson once fretted that a week is a long time in politics. Well, I have just had confirmation that two weeks is an...