Not content with raising the tax on tobacco in Tuesday’s budget, leading to an average increase of 37p per packet, the coalition government is now introducing – as we all forecast – minimum unit pricing on alcohol.
Our blogger friends and sympathetic mainstream media will no doubt be analysing and reacting to this news in depth over the next day or two.
In the meantime, you may like to cheer yourself up by listening to a decidedly tetchy and persistent John Humphrys interviewing a defensive Home Secretary Theresa May on the BBC Radio 4 ‘Today’ programme this morning about alcohol minimum pricing. Well worth listening to.
Interview starts at 2hr 10mins in:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01dhqfd/Today_23_03_2012/