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Will Durrant

Labour should raise price of a pint, says one of its backbenchers

Draught beer drinkers are set to save 1p a pint from February next year (Jeff Spicer/PA) - (PA Archive)

Labour should raise the price of a pint, one of the party’s backbenchers has suggested as part of a call to combat alcohol abuse.

Cat Smith told the Commons on Monday that successive governments had “placated” a multibillion-pound industry by freezing or lowering alcohol duty.

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