Trouble Brewing: Asquith's Licensing Bill
Britain’s concerns over binge drinking are nothing new says Luci Gosling, who describes how the brewing industry united to wreck Asquith’s Licensing Bill of 1908.
It is the avowed intention of the Government to introduce a new Licensing Bill of a drastic nature. The details of this Bill have been carefully guarded, but there can be little doubt that increased taxation, either of the brewer or the licensed victualler, and the imposition of a ‘time limit’ on licences already granted, is sought to be imposed.
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