From Wetherspoon to independent locals, pub bosses are sounding the alarm over a possible tax raid on drinkers in the Autumn Budget that they say will send prices climbing yet again.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is said to be planning to raise alcohol duty by more than 4 per cent in the Budget on Wednesday.

That would see a bottle of red wine get 15p more expensive, and comes after a slew of cost increases for pubs and brewers in the last year that have seen many smaller venues go bust.

Wetherspoon chief Tim Martin told Metro: ‘Pubs and the hospitality industry bore the brunt of the big tax increases in National Insurance Contributions (NICs) only a few months ago.’

He said increasing alcohol duty would ‘again affect pubs more than any other industry, when most have not recovered from the

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