(nb. I ain't DK) Christ on a bike, they're actually going to do it. Plans for minimum alcohol price The government's top medical adviser has drawn up plans for a minimum price for alcohol which would double the cost of some drinks in England. Under the proposal from Sir Liam Donaldson... Oh, not that fucker again. ...it has been reported that no drinks could be sold for less than 50 pence per unit...

From the BBC: The government's top medical adviser has drawn up plans for a minimum price for alcohol which would double the cost of some drinks in England. Under the proposal from Sir Liam Donaldson, it has been reported that no drinks could be sold for less than 50 pence per unit of alcohol they contain. It would mean most bottles of wine could not be sold for less than £4.50. Ca...

Proposals to set a minimum price for alcohol have been drawn up by England's chief medical officer Sir Liam Donaldson.

The government's top medical adviser, Sir Liam Donaldson, is proposing that alcohol should priced at a minimum of 50 pence per unit. Mr Farage said: "Minimum alcohol prices? How out of touch Sir Liam Donaldson is. He's forgotten, if he ever knew, that we gave away that power to Brussels years ago. "This would be an unlawful restriction on inter-community trade under Article 28. Whether y...

I worry that Sir Liam Donaldson, our well-meaning chief medical officer, is losing the plot. He is worried about the amount of alcohol consumed in the UK. Alcohol related illness cost the NHS fortune and is a major cause of a wide spectrum of crime. It is a problem. So Sir Liam is going to attack moderate drinkers from low income families. Sir Liam is suggesting a price hike on alcohol to a minimu...

Dr Rant would like to assure you that the Chief Medical Officer for England, Sir Liam 'Gingernuts' Donaldson, DOES NOT speak for me on the issue of minumum prices per unit of alcohol. Furthermore, neither does he speak for ANY doctor known to the Dr Rant team on this issue. Please don't blame US for this shite. More twattery from Liam - how much damage can this clown do before he re...

Government ministers have spent the last 24 hours distancing themselves from the proposal of chief medical officer Sir Liam Donaldson to establish a minimum price for alcohol which would see the doubling of the price of many beers and spirits. Today’s Guardian reports: Plans to charge a minimum of 50p per unit of alcohol are to

Sir Liam Donaldson is the government's chief medical adviser. Recently, he's been arguing in favour of a new policy: a minimum price per unit of alcohol. That might get rid of the odd handful of dangerously cheap all-you-can-drink deals and promotions, but it'll also force sensible and moderate social drinkers up and down the country to pay more money. You can argue the toss as to w...

A consultation document launched by Ed Balls, Alan Johnson and the Chief Medical Officer, Sir Liam Donaldson, is expected to advise parents not to allow children to drink any alcohol before they are 15. Donaldson was promoting this line on the Today Programme this morning but, as Costigan Quist points out: He didn't seem to be able to point to any evidence that children being given the odd dr...

A mania for banning, regulating and controlling behaviour of which the State disapproves has produced the latest dotty proposals on the pricing of alcohol. There should be a minimum price for alcohol, says the chief medical officer Liam Donaldson. Of course, this would put the price of a lot of booze up. The government's reaction has been lukewarm, which means the following. Donaldson will ha...