Ralph Findlay once took George Osborne to the top floor of Banks’s Park Brewery in Wolverhampton.
As they looked down over the sprawling complex of buildings, the towering chimney stacks, the yards packed with thousands of barrels, the now-retired boss of Marston's Plc told the then chancellor: "If you don’t get the beer duty regime changes, you are going to be looking at a hole in the ground here."
