FactCheck: The legal risks of Cameron?s alcohol strategy

couple of days after the budget, with rows raging about the "granny tax" and George Osborne's decision to help the super-rich by cutting the 50p rate, the PM had what seemed like a smart idea.

Number 10 decided to bring forward plans to increase the price of cheap alcohol, to tackle binge drinking and what David Cameron called "the mayhem on our streets".

According to Mr Cameron cheap booze is causing a "scourge of violence" - a million violent crimes and more than a million hospital admissions each year. Setting a minimum unit price (MUP) would, he promised, provide "a big part of the answer".

But I've found out that just four days before he made his announcement, he'd been warned by one of his own ministers that the policy could well be illegal. Was the PM right to go ahead or should he have listened to his colleague?

Source: http://blogs.channel4.com/factcheck/factcheck-the-legal-risks-of-camerons-alcohol-strategy/10504

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