The Chancellor of the Exchequer has scrapped the plans of the previous Government to increase beer duty in today’s Budget, and instead cut it by a penny, meaning beer will be 1p per pint cheaper after Sunday night – 4p per pint cheaper than it would have been under proposed increases.

Waveney MP Peter Aldous welcomed the news, saying:

This is great for beer-drinkers, it’s great for breweries, and it’s great for the 4000 brilliant pubs across the East of England.’