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  courtesy of the telegraph
  
  Damian Green said new laws bringing in a minimum price per unit of alcohol would prevent shops selling "very, cheap, very strong lager" that fuels drunken behaviour on the streets of Britain
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  The Government will today consult on a minimum price of 45p per unit despite warnings that the measures could squeeze the weekly supermarket bills of moderate, middle-class drinkers.
  Speaking on BBC Radio Four, Mr Green said it is a "fact of economics and life that if you put the price up, demand for it goes down".
  
  "What we're trying to stop specifically is very cheap, very strong alcohol because that's what contributes most to the terrible scenes we see in too many of our cities on a Friday and Saturday night of hugely drunk people, many of whom preloaded - in that wonderful phrase - before they go out for an evening's drinking," he said.
  
  "The reason for doing minimum unit pricing and not just increasing taxes is precisely to hit those irresponsible offers of very cheap, very strong lager - it can't be right that you can buy a can of lager for 20p when a bottle of water will cost ten times that much."

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