Restaurants predict mass evictions as moratorium ends

Bosses of Burger King, Itsu, Shake Shack and other restaurants with around 600 UK sites are urging Boris Johnson to extend the ban on commercial evictions, or risk widespread closures and redundancies. They claim that around 30pc of landlords in their experience have “indicated their intention to evict, issue final demands for full payment or otherwise indicated they will not support any restructure of Covid-19-incurred rent debt”. Backed by delivery app Deliveroo, they want the Gove