Britain needs an alfresco dining revolution to bring life into its cold city centres | Dan Hancox

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : There is a socio-cultural miserablism to British self-identity that says "we can't have nice things like this", as though it's "not our way".
53% : One Sunday last September, I sat at a table outside one of Lyon's famous traditional "bouchon" restaurants, eating a sumptuous prix-fixe lunch, as the heavens opened and a small monsoon pounded the cobbles around me and the parasol above my head.
42% : Food and drink businesses have faced the impact of Brexit, then Covid and soaring costs, staff shortages and supply-chain disruption - not to mention turbo-charged rents in our major cities.

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