Glass of wine ‘as risky as 3 vodkas’

Drinking a large glass of wine is as potentially harmful as downing three shots of vodka, a senior British health official has said.

Duncan Selbie, chief executive of Public Health England, warned that liver disease is a “silent killer” and now accounts for 500% more deaths among working age people than in the 1970s.

He said: “It is the third biggest killer of working age adults after ischaemic heart disease and self-harm.