DAVID CAMERON will overrule Cabinet colleagues to push through plans setting a minimum price for alcohol, it was reported yesterday.
Officials have been ordered to draw up proposals for a 40-50p unit floor price in English shops and supermarkets, sources claimed.
The move is expected to cost drinkers an additional £700m a year, with the extra tax revenue possibly going to the NHS, one newspaper reported.
Minimum pricing has the biggest impact on the cheapest and strongest drinks, and earlier this month a group of leading academics and health experts claimed the move would save thousands of lives.
A Government spokesman said: “The Government will continue to review all available evidence.
“No decisions have been made.”
