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Living wage will threaten future of pubs says Wetherspoon boss

A national living wage will unfairly effect pubs, threatening their future.

That’s according to the Founder and Chairman of JD Wetherspoon, Tim Martin, who claims that George Osborne’s announcement of a living wage would widen the “financial disparity between pubs and supermarkets”.

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