Long weekend to provide some respite for battered  British pubs 

Holiday to commemorate 70 years of Queen Elizabeth’s reign expected to boost the sector’s recovery

'The platinum jubilee may represent a chance to put cost-of-living concerns on ice for a weekend.'

British households flocking to bars and beer gardens to celebrate their queen’s jubilee over an extra-long weekend may provide some respite to the UK’s pub stocks, which are still well below pre-pandemic levels.

Two years of on-and-off curbs on socialising have left Marston’s, JD Wetherspoon, and Mitchells & Butlers, in which JP McManus and John Magnier hold significant shareholdings, trading at about half of their 2019 levels.