Comment - CBC - If You Ask Me ... - UK Budget a Mixed Bag for Alcohol Industry
By Chris Brook-Carter | 22 June 2010
There was little comfort expected in the UK for anyone from this Budget, one which the Chancellor himself described, before he unveiled details, as the harshest in 30 years.
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There was little comfort expected in the UK for anyone from this Budget, one which the Chancellor himself described, before he unveiled details, as the harshest in 30 years.

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