Picture credit: Mason Newman

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‘SOUR TASTE NOT FROM MY BEER’

The hospitality backlash against last year’s Budget is far from reaching last orders as one artist and pub landlord converts his boozer into an art gallery in protest. Birmingham-based artist and landlord of the 19th-century pub The Gunmakers Arms, Mason Newman, has completed a series of satirical caricatures of Sir Keir Starmer.

Along with decorating his pub with the artistic critiques, Newman, who has already barred the Prime Minister and his Chancellor from the venue, is also introducing a new house beer named ‘Pinokeir’. The self-described “poor man’s Andy Warhol”, who’s previously worked with Ozzy Osbourne and Madonna, says publicans have been “pushed to breaking point”.

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