Actually. Be quite nice, but its not all plain sailing, particularly if you go to the costa sol. Apparently this costa del sol. Apparently this is in the mail this morning. Costa del sol. Apparently this is in the mail this morning. And is in the mail this morning. And i imagine you doing this i can imagine you doing this queuing for two hours to get a sunbed out. I would do that. Thats something id find myself doing. Look, that is the most british thing you have ever seen your life. People seen in your life. People have actually chairs to actually pulled up chairs to queue sunbed. Queue for a sunbed. I just think its sunlounger i it is hm it is crackers. But youd have to youd have to stay in the queue at your best to have a seat because then you can continue to get your tan on. Cant you just on yeah. Cant you just lie on the tan . Mean, i would just the tan . I mean, i would just lie on towel at that point. Lie on the towel at that point. Theres grass there. Whatever spot think its not worth it spot you think its not worth it though, is it . No. But youre going to be there for ages, arent you . Because wait for because youve got to wait for people clear off the sun people to clear off the sun loungers. Its people to clear off the sun loungers. Its going be loungers. Its going to be several hours, it . Yeah several hours, isnt it . Yeah absolutely. Bonkers apparently people queuing for 2 2 more just after 2 2 hours or more just after dawn. Dawn. Its probably around this kind time. Kind of time. In the this isnt this is in the this isnt easy me to say. This is in easy for me to say. This is in the hotel is double talk quebrada. Quebrada. Yeah. Nice near malaga. Yeah. Nice near malaga. Yeah. Nice near malaga. So there you go. So if you dont want to i wouldnt go there if you if you want an easy access to a sunbed, its madness. Apparently every time the gate opens to the sun lounger area , madness ensues lounger area, madness ensues with people literally running in. And i find that stressful experience actually trying to get sunbed , trying to get a few get sunbed, trying to get a few together. Impossible mission. And theres people the worst kind of people who set their alarms for 5 am, get down to the pool. They lay out their the pool. They lay out their towels with no intention of being there till about 10 am. No. What about taking an inflatable . Could you do that . And just lying like a like a lilo . Thats quite a good idea, actually. Then youve got to be willing to lay in a pool for several hours. No, you could lay it on the side. Yeah its not the same. Its not the same. Its not the same. Im not as daft as i look. Youre not as daft as you look. No, but i do think thats probably a really good idea. Mm hmm. Youve cracked the code. That m code. That be it. Maybe if that could be it. Maybe if you there, you. Doesnt you lie there, you. Doesnt matter if youre lying matter if you. If youre lying on inflatable. Lilo with a on an inflatable. Lilo with a dnnk on an inflatable. Lilo with a drink long as your drink in drink as long as your drink in a book involved youre going book involved and youre going to fine. Problem is, how to be fine. The problem is, how much drink cost . Much will that drink cost . Thats it. Because if youre here in the uk, at least different in spain. But if different story in spain. But if youre here in the uk, well, your is likely to be your booze is likely to be getting a lot more expensive alcohol duties. Seeing its biggest single rise in 50 years from today as hospitality bosses are warning that the rise, which is about £225 million, could cripple the industry. Well, the Prime Minister has hailed the changes, which will see drinks taxed according to its strength as the most radical simplification of alcohol duty in over a century, made possible. He says because of brexit. But the wine and Spirits Trade Association isnt happy. Theyve accused the government of inflicting inflation, misery on customers. Well, our east Midlands Reporter will hollis has more on this story. This story. When youre in the business of helping brits get leathered , of helping brits get leathered, theres no better place to set up a brewery than an old leather factory. See, when you drink too much beer , you get a pot belly. So we beer, you get a pot belly. So we call it pot belly brewery, pot belly has been brewing beer here in kettering for nearly 20 years with ian as head brewer selling barrels and bottles. Hes seeing a shift in sales i years ago, we delivered big barrels, 144 pints, but theres too much now. Nobody will touch one of these. A lot of pubs that ideal one of these. A lot of pubs that i deal with want the little ones with 36 pints because its cheaper and it lasts twice as long from grain to glass. A single brew takes a week. This one just in time to be taxed under the new system. From today , duty will be measured on today, duty will be measured on booze of all kinds, using alcohol by volume. A simplified tax on strength. Meanwhile while a new draught relief dubbed the brexit pubs guarantee lowers the price of a pint by up to £0. 11 compared to supermarkets according to the treasury. But the new system puts pot belly in a pickle. The beer here in the pint glass is exactly the same as the one in the bottle. Its just that the duty is calculated differently now under the new rules , the bottle costs about an rules, the bottle costs about an extra £0. 30 in duty and the government is making them more expensive because ultimately they want drinkers to choose to dnnk they want drinkers to choose to drink weaker beers in the pub rather than stronger ones at home. Greg says the system will squeeze businesses like his. The price is on a barrel of beer should remain fairly constant. Isnt the one anomaly constant. Isnt the one anomaly is when you then dispense beers in less than 20l. So so anything thatis in less than 20l. So so anything that is in a small ten litre box or in a bottle of beer , the or in a bottle of beer, the price is then doubled in the duty side of it. Emma is chief exec at the british beer and pub association. She says that the reforms mean the industry will pay reforms mean the industry will pay an extra £224 million in tax at a time of high production costs. Beer duty , unfortunately, is beer duty, unfortunately, is still one of the highest in the whole of europe. Here in the uk , and we hope that some of these changes will incentivise people to be brewing lower strength beers to help consumers moderate their consumption. But their consumption. But unfortunately we probably wont see a much difference in prices at this moment in time in terms of them at the pub, the of lowering them at the pub, the cost of beers and cans at home are going to be increased some 10. 1 because of the changes that are being introduced today. Back at the brewery, sam, the teams youngest, is on clean up i my favourite job of the day. My favourite job of the day. Digging out the hops out the copper. Digging out the hops out the copper. Its digging out the hops out the copper. Its a its a bit warm in there and dirty , but its one in there and dirty, but its one of them. Jobs have got to be done, im afraid. Washing away the old duty is gone. The old duty is gone. Its replacement needs to pump up the industry rather than drain it dry. Will hollis gb news in kettering. News in kettering. Well, former adviser to the chief secretary to the treasury , sir leon emirali is in the studio. Good to see you this morning. Good morning. Good morning. This is a bit of a tricky one, isnt it . Because on the surface you go, well, booze is going to cost us more. Thats a bad thing. Yeah but if youre drinking in a pub and drinking draught beer, then youre all right. So. Its boost to draught beer, then youre all right. Isnt its boost to draught beer, then youre all right. Isnt it . Ts boost to pubs, isnt it . It is a boost to pubs even, but its a small boost to pubs. And i think thats the key thing here. Theres an imbalance because the booster pubs, a couple off a pint, couple of pennies off a pint, whereas buy whereas if youre going to buy a bottle wine from the from the bottle of wine from the from the supermarket, youre potentially looking quid on that looking at an extra quid on that bottle wine. So i think there bottle of wine. So i think there is a slight imbalance here. 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Now its a flat rate and it depends on the alcohol content that the alcohol content of that particular so the idea is particular drink. So the idea is it simplifies and deters it simplifies it and deters people from getting hammered basically. Mean, you say, it so i mean, as you say, it depends the alcohol content. Depends on the alcohol content. So like spirits so well see things like spirits and becoming more and wines becoming more expensive, draught beer expensive, although draught beer will cheaper. But that will become cheaper. But that will become cheaper. But that will mean for the hospitality sector, they will probably have no choice but to pass on those rate rises to customers. This is part of the problem. Ellie. A lot of businesses that generate these types of higher alcohol content, so maybe youre looking at fortified wines, maybe youre looking at specific spirits. Those specific gins or spirits. Those businesses are saying actually , businesses are saying actually, this is a real problem for us because already costs are because already our costs are going because of inflation going up because of inflation more and now the more broadly. And now the government adding extra government is adding this extra tax alcohol duty that tax onto our alcohol duty that we either pass on the we either pass on to the customers or we out of customers or we go out of business. So its a conundrum for those those alcohol producers, but also for those people who want to enjoy a drink at the end of a day or at the weekend. You know, this is just another increase, increasing cost that were seeing across the and its that the board. And its that inflation continue to run. All right. But its the there is element of and is an element of this. And i know big brother style in in know the big brother style in in how we consume things isnt always very, very positive. But theres a bit of an alcohol problem in this country, isnt there . And we are drinking with certain generations , at least certain generations, at least drinking more than previous. Only if this puts a bit of a kibosh on that. Well, thats quite good, isnt it . And thats really where this policy stemmed from. It was policy stemmed from. It was introduced by rishi sunak when he was chancellor, and he wanted to be able to say that actually the country is drinking too much and we shouldnt be rewarding those. Should actually be those. We should actually be trying to put in place a deterrent for who drink deterrent for people who drink a lot and particularly lot of alcohol, and particularly high alcohol. Thats high strength alcohol. So thats the it, the intention behind it, stephen. Always , with stephen. But as always, with these types of rises, they seem negligible, but they add up over a of time and will a period of time and it will raise a lot of money for the exchequer. Will also exchequer. Yes but it will also take lot of out of take a lot of money out of peoples pockets. I think peoples pockets. And i think when at those health when you look at those health benefits, been benefits, theres clearly been some of calculation within some sort of calculation within the treasury that says actually this is better off for the pubuc this is better off for the public can reinvest public purse. We can reinvest it. That alcohol duty into it. That extra alcohol duty into the service were all happy. Hold on a minute, though. £225 million is the extra cost , £225 million is the extra cost, but thats nothing to the treasury. I mean, they wont nofice treasury. I mean, they wont notice that will they . Well, its the 225 million extra cost, but its also, stephen, about that health benefit. If youre to benefit. So if youre able to deter people drinking deter people from drinking alcohol, people not getting alcohol, from people not getting the diseases that are associated with alcohol use, then with heavy alcohol use, then obviously theres a saving that then on through then gets passed on through the nhs that gets nhs. Theres a saving that gets passed through health care passed on through health care that we pay for in this country. So theres the wider picture. The treasury looking at. So theres the wider picture. The ireasury looking at. So theres the wider picture. The ireasurthats looking at. So theres the wider picture. The ireasurthats whyoking at. So theres the wider picture. The ireasurthats why this g at. And i think thats why this policy ultimately being policy is ultimately being lauded the government. But it lauded by the government. But it isnt without its potential pitfalls. Mean , sunak pitfalls. I mean, rishi sunak is painting benefit of painting this as a benefit of brexit, isnt he . Hes saying that this is enabled brexit. That enabled by brexit. The fact that we essentially make our own we can essentially make our own rules now. Absolutely. And this is yeah, absolutely. And this is part of, i think the formation of this policy. The government want to able to say were out want to be able to say were out of european now. We of the European Union now. We can things differently as a can do things differently as a result of and this is one result of that. And this is one of things that they will of the things that they will point quite tangible. Point to thats quite tangible. It you a nice headline it gets you a nice headline because down and you because you can go down and you can say actually your pint down the pub is to going be cheaper. And brexit. Thats and thanks to brexit. Thats why. Think this is a lot why. And i think this is a lot of politics at play here, it gives that headline, as you gives them that headline, as you say, the numbers are say, stephen, the numbers are actually small when actually quite small when we look in round, but look at it in the round, but its all about politics here. Its about positions, its all about positions, the country can do Things Country as if we can do things differently now that were outside european outside the European Union. Okay . Okay . Want em okay . Want to ask gem we just want to ask you about another big story today, which is coots coots bank. Theyre going nigel back going to give nigel farage back his and his his business account and his personal , and he is now personal account, and he is now asking for compensation , an and asking for compensation, an and asking for compensation, an and a formal apology. Bring us up to speed. It was quite an extraordinary turn of events, isnt it . I mean, this time last week we were discussing nigel farage losing now he losing his bank account. Now he may be given bank may well be given his bank account coots. And account back by coots. And i think because of the think this is because of the political pressure that weve seen placed on only coots, seen placed on not only coots, but natwest as the holding but the natwest as the Holding Company ceo company that owns coots, the ceo obviously departed last week as did the ceo of coots. So nigel farage has come out and said, actually there is no place for political discrimination in in banking. And think the banking. And i think the political powers have got behind him that. We now find him on that. And we now find ourselves in a situation where he could get his bank account back. It isnt without coots back. But it isnt without coots his reputation being damaged in the i think they his reputation being damaged in the have i think they his reputation being damaged in the have wished hink they would have wished that they didnt in the first didnt start this in the first place theyre the ones place because theyre the ones that come more bruised that have come out more bruised than has. Than nigel farage has. Liam, good to see you. Yeah. Liam, good to see you. Thank you very much indeed. You. Thank you. Thank you. Can understand position can understand his position on nigels position on that. I dont if want to bank dont know if id want to bank with anymore. With them anymore. All, the first thing after all, the first thing i thought i said, does he want it back . Back . Well, then hes saying hes struggling accounts elsewhere. Does. So he does. So he does. Suppose he does. But i. So i suppose he does. But i. I wouldnt want them to get to have the benefit of my money. No, i agree with you. No, no, i agree with you. Its first thing i thought its the first thing i thought was i said. But as he said was when i said. But as he said to us, ten banks have refused to take his money, essentially. So take his money, essentially. So i think hes quite grateful. He says hes welcome and the move, but he would like compensation now and a formal apology. So this story is just going to continue to roll, isnt it . Yes it is for the time being, anyway. Now, the arrival of the first set of Asylum Seekers on the stockholm barge in dorset has been delayed amid fire safety concerns. The home office had been planning to send the initial group of 50 migrants to the barge. Its currently docked in portland , but the plan has been portland, but the plan has been held up following last minute talks. Well, lets speak now to former immigration security adviser henry bolton. Good morning to you , henry. Good morning to you, henry. So this has been delayed. Was this expected . This expected . Well , of course, initially, well, of course, initially, no, it wasnt. I think, you no, it wasnt. I think, you know, as of yesterday or the day before, it really became a sort of realistic prospect that it would be delayed. Whats quite would be delayed. Whats quite incredible about this is the demonstration that at the home office has not done its planning and preparation correctly or thoroughly. You know , the thoroughly. You know, the problem here is one of the fire inspections and the signing off the accommodation as suitably fireproof. And you know, to be fair in a sense , the probability fair in a sense, the probability of a fire on there, the fire control on board the bibby stockholm is adequate. What the problem is, is evacuation action. Should there be a fire and thats one of the problems with using vessels of this sort. But its quite incredible that it wasnt signed off in the planning and preparation stage of