WSTA

Spirits will disappear off shelves unless HGV action

Concerned members of the Wine and Spirit Trade Association are calling on the Transport Secretary to take urgent action over HGV driver shortages and freight disruption to avoid some of our favourite spirits from disappearing from the UK supermarket shelves. Nearly fifty of the UK’s wine and spirit businesses put their names to a letter,…

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Comment: Alcohol taxation: when is a review not a review?

WSTA chief executive Miles Beale has outlined four of the simpler things that Chancellor Rishi Sunak could – and should – do as part of a ‘once-in-a-generation’ chance to re-design alcohol taxation in the UK. Beale’s comments follow. In this weekend’s Sunday Times Tim Shipman, its Chief Political Commentator, wrote a surprisingly detailed piece about…

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Comment: Alcohol taxation: when is a review not a review?

WSTA chief executive Miles Beale has outlined four of the simpler things that Chancellor Rishi Sunak could – and should – do as part of a ‘once-in-a-generation’ chance to re-design alcohol taxation in the UK. Beale’s comments follow. In this weekend’s Sunday Times Tim Shipman, its Chief Political Commentator, wrote a surprisingly detailed piece about…

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