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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Jasper Jolly

EXPLAINED: Wetherspoon s tim martin piles in to no 10 hypocrisy as sales crash | Rare Historical Photos

Tim Martin with Boris Johnson
Tim Martin (right) with Boris Johnson during the Tory leadership campaign in 2019. Photograph: Henry Nicholls/PA

The pub chain JD Wetherspoon has criticised the government’s “hypocrisy” for holding parties at 10 Downing Street while restrictions forced pub sales to crash.

Wetherspoon also said the latest plan B restrictions brought in at the start of the Omicron wave of infections in December had depressed sales over the crucial festive period in the hospitality sector for a second year running.

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