Social-distancing rules mean that many premises have decided to remain shutBritain’s hospitality industry has issued a stark warning to the government, saying that any delay to the scheduled relaxation of restrictions this month would have a “devastating effect”. UK Hospitality, a trade body, said that any hold-up in the removal of “all legal limits on social contact” due on June 21 under the prime minister’s road map to recovery would badly hit “an already fragile hospitality sector”. SponsoredAlthough Boris Johnson had initially insisted that there was nothing to prevent the plan from proceeding, the surge in the Indian variant of the coronavirus has caused leading scientists to recommend a postponement. Kate Nicholls, UK Hospitality’s chief executive, said that the latest market data from CGA and Alix Partners showed that a quarter of licensed premises had

Source: The Times June 01, 2021 15:56 UTC