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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Dominik Lemanski

Tory pledge to stop cheap alcohol being sold in supermarkets branded a failure

A Tory pledge to call time on sales of cheap supermarket booze is today exposed as a dismal failure.

Shoppers can down the weekly maximum alcohol amount recommended by doctors for less than the price of a takeaway coffee.

It comes a decade after ex-Prime Minister David Cameron announced a minimum 40p price for a unit of alcohol to reduce its damaging impact on health and links to criminal behaviour.

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