Students fail in alcohol ban rebellion
THE SNP leadership narrowly avoided defeat over plans to ban anyone under 21 from buying alcohol in off-licences or supermarkets.
The party split over an amendment put forward by the Nationalists' student wing – Young Scots for Independence – which tried to force the party to ditch the proposal. Alison Thewliss, who proposed the YSI amendment, said: "Penalising the many for the bad behaviour of a few is simply unfair."
The health minister, Shona Robison, pleaded with conference "to allow the Scottish Government to take forward its full radical package of measures" to tackle the scourge of alcohol abuse in Scotland.
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