Pub landlord Marc Bridgen has hit out at the Labour Government for "killing" the industry, as hundreds of boozers shut their doors in the first six months of this year.
Speaking to GB News, Mr Bridgen declared he plans to "keep going for as long as possible", but running a pub has not been a "stable environment" for a long time.
Following Labour's tax raid and increase in costs, more than 200 pubs closed across the UK in the first six months of this year.
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Discussing his own situation on GB News, Mr Bridgen explained: "This has been in the news for so long now, and it doesn't look like anything's changing. It is so challenging to run a pub in these times.
"For a few years now, I think it really started with the utility crisis, which was the end for many, many pubs and many landlords.
"We saw our energy go from £36,000 a year to £100,000, and we somehow survived that, twinned with the inflation, on everything we buy."
Highlighting his biggest costs in keeping his business afloat, Mr Bridgen added: "Recently we saw some of our beef products go up 25 per cent, and there's now the new taxes on packaging, which is coming into effect.
Pub Landlord Marc Bridgen claimed Labour is 'killing the industry' of pubs in Britain
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"And then that has a knock-on effect on your waste.
"The really big challenge is labour costs, that's our single largest bill, our team.
"It takes a lot of people to run a pub, restaurant, and in our case, we've got rooms, a hotel.
"We have a staff of around 25 people."
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More than 200 pubs closed across the UK in the first six months of this year
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Mentioning Chancellor Rachel Reeves, Mr Bridgen declared he would "love to sit down with her" and discuss the dire situation landlords are facing, admitting he "wouldn't know whether to laugh or to cry".
He said: "I would love to sit down with her. Government is meant to deliver a safe, stable environment for us to live and work in, and we do not have a stable environment within which to run our pubs and restaurants.
"They've got it wrong. They just don't understand, and they are killing an industry that provides a huge amount of jobs and pays a huge amount in tax."
Expressing concern for the complete wipeout of pubs across Britain, Mr Bridgen highlighted the rapid decline of other public services such as banks and Post Offices.
Mr Bridgen told GB News that the 'pubs are next' to become extinct
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Mr Bridgen stated: "We've lost our banks, we've lost our post offices, and the pub is going next. It has become so expensive to staff and to turn the lights on and to buy the beer and to then serve it, we're not making any profit.
"And we've had to keep putting our prices up, and it's not to our benefit."
Asked by host Eamonn Holmes what the future holds for his pub, Mr Bridgen concluded: "We're just going to lose more and more pubs.
"Our wonderful village of Wingham used to have four pubs, it has two now, and I don't know how long they will remain in business.
"I'm trying to go for as long as possible because we love it and we love our guests and we love our team, but it is so hard."