LONDON — The world’s biggest alcohol companies have banded together to fight British government warnings about the dangers of drinking, funding a group dedicated to ensuring "the debate in UK society around alcohol and alcohol misuse remains balanced".The formation of the group, called the Alcohol Information Partnership, comes after the UK recently revamped its alcohol guidelines, suggesting men and women cap their drinking at the same amount and warning that there is no safe level of drinking.The alcohol industry has taken particular issue with the no-safe-level declaration."The debate has become increasingly imbalanced and characterised by poor representation of the evidence," said Dave Roberts, director-general of the new partnership. "Too often the facts have been dramatised or exaggerated in order to scare people and skew the debate."Roberts, who is the founder of a UK-based communications consultancy and worked as an aide for former Labour Party economic spokesman Edward Ball...
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