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Liberal Democrats leader Nick Clegg shared a pint on Tuesday with Business secretary Vince Cable in a pub in London, just a week after an internal party poll row.
The former Lib Dem member Lord Oakeshott, who has now quit the party, privately commissioned surveys in several constituencies that showed a collapse in support for the party since 2010. The poll results also suggested that the Deputy Prime Minister would lose his seat in 2015 general election.
After being criticised for his actions, Lord Oakeshott had also revealed that Mr Cable was informed about everything. However, the business secretary had denies the accusation of plotting against the party leader.
After the damaging poll row, the LibDem pair have opted to appear at a central London pub together to launch fresh proposals aimed to help pub landlords, aside from cancelling the effect of a week of trauma for the party due to disappointing results in Europeans election – and specifically as a sign of unity for pair’s working relationship.
Under the new reforms, the government is giving publicans new rights in a statutory code, allowing them to request a rent review, after complaints by publicans tied to larger companies over low incomes: over half of these publicans earn less than the minimum wage. An independent adjudicator will also be appointed with the power to resolve disputes.
Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) head of communications Tom Stainer has said: “With 28 pubs closing a week it is vital that publicans, who are on the frontline of keeping our valued community pubs open, are given protection from heavy-handed business practices from the big pubcos.
“Publicans could see the price they pay for beer fall by up to 60p a pint if the adjudicator forces the big pubcos to match open market prices. A 60p a pint saving would be a huge boost in the battle to keep pubs open and could lead to cheaper pub prices for customers.”
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