The Treasury can’t mark its own homework on alcohol duty reform

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As we approach the three-year anniversary of the first major reform of the UK’s alcohol excise regime in over 50 years, Miles Beale, chief executive of the Wine & Spirit Trade Association, shares his hopes and fears of the government’s evaluation of the new system

The reform of the alcohol excise duty regime, started under the previous government and completed under Keir Starmer’s Labour administration, was long overdue. 

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