The Liberal Democrats have released their 2010 election manifesto, outlining their proposals for alcohol policy:
"We will...reduce the ill health and crime caused by excessive drinking. We support a ban on below-cost selling, and are in favour of the principle of minimum pricing, subject to detailed work to establish how it could be used in tackling problems of irresponsible drinking. We will also review the complex, ill-thought-through system of taxation for alcohol to ensure it tackles binge drinking without unfairly penalising responsible drinkers, pubs and important local industries."
As The Publican points out, they appeared to have watered down their stance on minimum pricing somewhat after the Shadow Health Secretary Norman Lamb had previously called out for the measure.
A summary of the 3 main manifesto's positions on drug and alcohol policy has been produced by Andrew Brown of Mentor
UK - download here (pdf).
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