Loungers chair slammed Reeves’ tax agenda.

A top boss of a British bar chain has quit a government hospitality taskforce after facing pressure over his criticism of Rachel Reeves’ tax agenda.

Alex Reilley, the chairman of Loungers, has exited the Hospitality Sector Council (HSC) after receiving backlash from civil servants for publicly criticising Labour’s economic policies, The Telegraph reported.

“I was critical of the Government, which they didn’t like because their view is ‘well hang on, you’re on the inside now and you can’t be publicly criticising what the Government is doing’,” Reilley said.

The bar boss argued his criticism was “justified” and “took the view I wasn’t prepared to stop speaking my mind”.

Reilley had joined the HSC earlier this year in a bid to help rejuvin

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