A Yorkshire Post interview with Consevative shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling reveals that the Tories are committed to reviewing the '24-hour licensing regime' and are particularly keen to cut down on the over-proliferation of late-night off-licences and pubs serving under-aged children, for which there would be a three strikes and you're out policy [this is case already - LR].
"I don't want to go back to the point where every pub closed at 10.30pm, but I'm unpersuaded by the idea that having a large number of pubs open to 3am or 4am is leading to the creation of the continental-style cafe culture that Tony Blair used to talk about."
In February, the BBC reported Grayling as saying there was a "strong case" to end the 24-hour licensing changes.
Sounds like politics to me! Whilst there is a case that license terms have not been stringent enough on the whole, it's a bit late to still be terming the act as being about '24 hr licensing'.
Posted by: James Morris | Wednesday, May 06, 2009 at 10:32 AM