PUB landlords in Gwynedd are being urged to air their views on the booze ban that comes into effect from 6pm today.

With an alcohol ban and 6pm closing time coming into effect for pubs, bars and restaurants in Wales today, Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP, Liz Saville Roberts, who said the plan ‘lacked logic’ earlier this week, is inviting pub landlords in her constituency to a meeting to discuss concerns surrounding Welsh government restrictions prohibiting the sale of alcohol in pubs.

The meeting will take place over Zoom on Wednesday, 9 December.

Mrs Saville Roberts said: "There has been an understandable backlash to these new restrictions from the hospitality industry and there is now a real risk of public trust being further eroded because people cannot comprehend the logic.

“Public trust in policy depends largely on a clearly communicated logic. I fear that banning alcohol completely could have the opposite intended consequence of driving people to socialise at home.

"Security and safety in a well-run Welsh pub is going to be lower risk than people congregating in households with no regulating of alcohol consumption.

"We have to maintain a sensible balance in terms of allowing people to work and live.

"Penalising the hospitality trade - pubs, restaurants and cafés - after a terrible year will send many to the wall.”