Is this the end of the Happy Hour, as we know it?
According to a Report published by a cross-party Health Committee, on 8 January 2010, the U.K. Government should introduce minimum prices on alcoholic drinks, independent and tighter regulation of promotions, a rise in taxes on spirits, and mandatory health warnings on labels.
The Home Affairs Select Committee wants to end cheap drinks promotions thought to encourage binge-drinking.
It criticises Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s administration for being too sympathetic to supermarkets and drink producers and not paying enough attention to doctors. The report says that the Government is guilty of a “failure of will and competence” over alcohol policy.