Those restaurants, cafes and hotels represent six out of seven of the 3.5m jobs in the overall hospitality sector, and some figures cited by the employers’ trade body, Hospitality UK, for average increases in business rates over the next three years were truly exceptional – try 115% for a hotel in England. If dire warnings about closures and job losses are correct, Reeves may have to suffer the embarrassment of fiddling again with business rates in her autumn budget.