Minimum price warning on Xmas booze

Updated
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Rui Vieira/PA Wire

A family's Christmas booze bill would rise by around £17 under plans to impose a minimum price for alcohol, an industry body said amid fresh reports that the Government could ditch the proposed reform.

The Wine and Spirit Trade Association (WSTA) said a 50p-per-unit-of-alcohol lower limit would add more than a third to a standard basket of festive wine, beer and spirits.
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