No evidence Buckfast ban would work, say police - Telegraph

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No evidence Buckfast ban would work, say police - Telegraph: "Chief Superintendent Bob Hamilton, of Strathclyde Police's territorial policing unit, said “people would drink something else” and the price and availability of cheap alcohol was the real problem.
Holyrood’s health committee also heard there was no evidence to support Labour’s claim that selling alcohol below cost would help tackle Scotland’s binge drinking epidemic. The two proposals were the central recommendations of Labour’s alcohol commission, which tried to provide alternatives to the SNP’s policy of minimum unit pricing, a move the party opposes.
The commission was supposedly independent but Professor Sally Brown, its chair, admitted its members had been picked by Labour and there was no proof a “floor” price would work."