Robert Paston

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The Rest Is Money · 286. Dan Neidle: Pubs don’t deserve a VAT cut · 10 Jun 2026 podcast

10 billion pounds.

Sorry, 10 billion pounds just for restaurants and hospitality.

So talk us through why the likes of Tom Kerridge are wrong that cutting VAT would be the right thing to do.

Hello and welcome to The Rest Is Money with me, Robert Paston.

We have.

Vandy Burnham in Makerfield trying to be their MP, also trying to be our next prime minister.

And one of the policies that he hopes will make him more popular is he says he wants to help pubs by cutting the council tax they pay.

So does that make any sense at all?

How should we help struggling smaller businesses?

So here's our conversation with a guy who knows everything about that kind of thing, Dan Needle.

So talk us through why the likes of Tom Kerridge are wrong that cutting VAT would be the right thing to do.

Hang on.

Sorry, £10 billion just for restaurants and hospitality?

That's the cost of that?

So can I just, though, make the counter argument that some would make?

which is that many of these businesses are either going bust or are quite close to going bust.

And rebuilding their margins would keep them alive, would preserve employment, and potentially would increase jobs.

This is, again, obviously an argument that you don't find compelling.

Can I just ask you another question which has gained quite a lot of attention, which is, does it matter –

that the costs on British restaurants, and in particular from VAT, are significantly higher than in other countries.

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