IEA Head of Lifestyle Economics Christopher Snowdon has been quoted in an ITV news report on the impact of Scotland’s minimum alcohol unit pricing.

Christopher said:

“Minimum pricing was promoted to politicians based on speculative modelling so it is apt that a speculative model is being used to save it from the sunset clause – but minimum pricing has only ever worked in the imaginations of a handful of academics.

“It has cost Scottish consumers hundreds of millions of pounds and deserves to be ditched.”

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