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Government to accept MRO pubs code vote

20-Nov-2014 By Mike Berry

The Government has accepted MPs’ decision to vote for a market rent only clause for tied tenants in the pubs code and will not seek to challenge it.

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06-Feb-2014 By Rob Willock

I’d just finished putting the finishing touches to a scathing comment piece criticising the Home Office for its decision not to grant a national licence extension for pubs during the World Cup.

Elliott: MPs know very little about the pub industry

25-Jul-2012 By David Elliott

Confirmation that a private members’ bill from Cambridge Lib Dem MP Julian Huppert has passed its initial hurdle in the House of Commons, epitomises for me the complete lack of knowledge of our industry demonstrated by a large number of MPs.

MPs to debate laws to protect threatened pubs

15-Feb-2011 By James Wilmore

Pressure on the government to change planning laws to protect threatened pubs is set to intensify, as MPs will debate the issue tomorrow. Greg...

Lib Dem MP: restrict pub and shop opening hours

14-Sep-2010 By Ewan Turney

A Lib Dem MP has called for the Government to restrict opening hours of pubs, clubs and shops and introduce a ban on below cost sales of alcohol....

Save Pub Group calls for Home Office meeting

29-Jul-2010 By Ewan Turney

Save the Pub Group chair Greg Mulholland has called for a meeting with the Home Office over the proposed changes on licensing. The Lib Dem MP has...

'Pubs minister role is axed'

17-May-2010 By Ewan Turney

The role of pubs minister looks set to be short-lived, according to one of the favourites for the post. Lib Dem MP and Save the Pub Group chair Greg...

Mulholland: game is up for pubcos

19-Mar-2010 By Ewan Turney

The game is up for "unscrupulous pubcos", Save the Pub Group chair Greg Mulholland has warned. The pro-pub Lib Dem MP has worked tirelessly for a...

Mulholland slams BBPA over pub industry debate

10-Nov-2009 By Hamish Champ

Greg Mulholland, the Lib Dem MP who chairs the All-Party Parliamentary Save the Pub Group, has slammed the sector's leading trade body for refusing...

Mulholland slams Chancellor over pub VAT rises

04-Nov-2009 By Ewan Turney

Lib Dem MP Greg Mulholland has slammed the Chancellor over his token gesture to delay the VAT rise until the morning of 1 January. The Treasury has...

Mulholland: OFT does not care about pub tenants

22-Oct-2009 By Ewan Turney

Lib Dem MP Greg Mulholland has slammed the Office of Fair Trading for its "phenomenally poor" decision to take no further action on the beer tie....

Licensee bids to be Lib Dem MP

06-Jul-2009 By Ewan Turney

A Dorset licensee is bidding to become a Lib Dem MP at the next general election. Philip Eades is a Hall and Woodhouse tenant at the Sloop in Poole...

Mulholland: new beer orders needed

13-May-2009 By Ewan Turney

Vociferous Lib Dem MP Greg Mulholland has called for a fresh set of beer orders in the wake of the damning pubco report.

MPs call for major reform of beer tie

28-Apr-2009 By Matt Eley Matt

MPs argued today that a major reform of the beer tie is needed to help British pubs survive. Lib Dem MP for Southport Dr John Pugh, who led the...

Mulholland calls for industry to unite

12-Mar-2009

Lib Dem MP Greg Mulholland has urged the industry to unite after details of a British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA) shake-up were revealed by The...

MP confident over 125ml wine measure bid

17-Oct-2008 By James Wilmore

An MP bidding to force pubs and bars to offer wine in smaller measures has withdrawn a parliamentary bill on the issue, because he believes the...

Support for MPs call to re-define binge-drinking

18-Aug-2008 By Matt Eley Matt

A leading trade group has backed calls for the term binge-drinking to be redefined. Lib Dem MP and Publican columnist Greg Mulholland has criticised...

MP targets vodka shot cocktails

19-Jun-2008

An MP has claimed a new range of alcopop drinks are being marketed in a design aimed at glamourising teenage drinking. Labour member for Northampton...

Darling vows to stand by duty rises

28-Apr-2008 By Ewan Turney

Chancellor still believes he was right to raise alcohol duty despite trade uproar

Mulholland: Darling is killing pubs

24-Apr-2008 By Ewan Turney

Chancellor Alistair Darling will go down in history as the man who killed the British pub, says Lib Dem MP Greg Mulholland