Pubs, clubs and restaurants have been closing their doors for the final time across Scotland in recent years following huge increases in costs.
Scotland's "shattered" hospitality industry has called for the SNP Government to show support for the sector at the next month's Budget.
Hospitality chiefs are now demanding Shona Robison reduces the "burden" of non-domestic rates on high street businesses when the Finance Secretary announces her draft Budget at Holyrood next month. "Rachel Reeves has stifled hospitality investment, growth, and ambitions. But it has also shattered any confidence from hospitality operators that this is a government that supports the sector.
SNP ministers were handed a financial boost by Reeves last month with more cash heading north as a result of increased spending at Westminster. The Scottish Labour leader said: "For too long businesses in Scotland have been forced to pay the price for the SNP’s financial and economic failure. "The SNP must match this level of ambition and pledge not to shortchange Scottish businesses in a desperate bid to fill its budget blackhole for another year.
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