HeyJaredGareth Hetherington
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- Sep 29, 2026
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Gareth Hetherington: Should hospitality pay less VAT? The border helps make the case (opens the original)
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Every hospitality trade body in the UK wants a lower rate of VAT and every Chancellor for the past decade has said no. The Treasuryâs reasons are well rehearsed, a sectoral VAT cut is expensive, it is politically very difficult to reverse and it creates a queue of other sectors asking for the same treatment. The one exception was the temporary cut to 5% during the pandemic, which was withdrawn in 2022 having cost more than £8 billion. For now, hospitality across the UK remains on the standard
Gareth Hetherington: Can Belfast party its way to prosperity? (opens the original)
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For eight days Belfast sounded and felt like a different city. Fiddles and tin whistles replaced traffic as the dominant noise, pavements became stages and the city centre filled with competitors and visitors from across Ireland and further afield. Organisers estimate the final Fleadh Cheoil footfall to exceed 1.6 million, making it the best attended Fleadh ever. Hotels, pubs, restaurants and shops all benefited and initial estimates suggested the event could generate an economic impact of over
Gareth Hetherington: Is more devolution for Stormont on the cards? (opens the original)
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Andy Burnham is on the cusp of becoming Prime Minister, and in his policy speech last week he promised the biggest ever transfer of power away from Whitehall, describing the UK as one of the most over-centralised countries in the world. A new unit would be established in Downing Street, and he offered to extend existing devolution settlements in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The argument that decisions affecting local people are best taken locally is intuitively attractive and few would
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