It seems Labour will not rest until the gambling industry is dead and buried. In the latest attack, more than 100 Labour MPs have signed a letter to Chancellor Rachel Reeves calling for significant tax rises on ‘harmful online gambling products’. The letter, written by MPs Alex Ballinger and Beccy Cooper, both members of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Gambling Reform, suggests that the revenue should be ‘ringfenced to help address child poverty and related harms.’

We risk seeing an exodus of gamblers from mainstream bookmakers

The letter follows an intervention by Gordon Brown, who described raising gambling levies as a ‘straightforward Budget choice’. The former prime minister has come out in support of the Institute for Public Policy Research think tank, which believes that the

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