Healey’s budget offers little cheer for wine and spirits

Middleton distillery

Healey’s maiden budget will benefit smaller brewers and cidermakers, but larger suppliers and wine and spirits makers argue it risks widening duty disparity

Wine and spirits suppliers have every right to feel aggrieved by yesterday’s budget, which offered little in the way of support at a time when many are already battling an unpleasant cocktail of declining sales and rising costs.

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