Tory backbenchers have expressed dismay amid suggestions that plans for minimum pricing of alcohol are being dropped. David Cameron had thrown his ...

With the announcement that the government is proposing a minimum price on alcohol in England and Wales in order to tackle problem drinking, and in turn reduce the levels of alcohol related crime and ill health you have to wonder, is it actually a good idea?

The Scottish Government has announced it will seek a minimum pricing of 50p per unit of alcohol. Health secretary Nicola Sturgeon made the announce...

If the government's new Alcohol Strategy was brought forward to deflect attention from a badly-spun budget, then the plan worked.

If Cameron gets his way, the impact of minimum pricing on consumption could take years to ascertain; its impact on the political status of alcohol, though, would be immediate.

Recently, David Cameron called binge drinking "one of the scandals of our society", but who is to blame: drinkers or the drinks business?