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Winning Post – Labour tees up latest debate on gambling regulation

SBC News Winning Post - Labour tees up latest debate on gambling regulation

Regulus Partners, the strategic consultancy focused on international gambling and related industries, takes a look at some key developments for the gambling industry in its ‘Winning Post’ column. US: regulated sportsbetting – e pluribus confusionem? The US Federal government formally considered sportsbetting for the first time since the overturn of PASPA, in the form of a House Judiciary Subcommittee hearing …

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Regulus Partners – The legitimacy of Labour’s proposals

SBC News Regulus Partners - The legitimacy of Labour’s proposals

Regulus Partners, the strategic consultancy focused on international gambling and related industries, takes a look at some key developments for the gambling industry in its ‘Winning Post’ column. UK: Politics – Watson’s reforms more elementary than barking mad Britain’s gambling stakeholders were offered a vision of regulation under a Labour government this week as the party’s deputy leader, Tom Watson …

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Tom Watson – Labour will eradicate debt-financed credit betting

SBC News Tom Watson - Labour will eradicate debt-financed credit betting

Labour Party Deputy Leader Tom Watson has warned the UK betting industry to expect tougher sanctions alongside further market restrictions, should Labour win the next UK General Election (scheduled for 2022). Speaking to the BBC, Tom Watson seeks to replicate the ‘whistle-to-whistle advertising ban’, introduced in Australia at the start of 2018, which prohibits all promotion of betting-related content during …

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MPs emphasise the importance of the DCMS review on the horse racing industry

SBC News MPs emphasise the importance of the DCMS review on the horse racing industry

This week’s long awaited triennial review of gaming machines stakes and prizes not only led to a 12 week consultation period, but also incited an incredibly heated debate in Parliament on Tuesday. As part of the debate, the case was made for how future regulations on terminals could have implications on the horse racing industry, both co-chairs of the all-party …

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Timeline – How the fate of fobts became such a deep seated issue

SBC News Timeline - How the fate of fobts became such a deep seated issue

As the long awaited triennial review of gaming machines stakes and prizes looms, it’s seemingly becoming increasingly likely that the result will be a crippling clampdown on the maximum stakes on fixed-odds-betting-terminals (FOBTs). Since the introduction of the Gambling Act in 2005, the political maelstrom that has engulfed FOBTs has inevitably intensified the levels of tension, and decreased the levels …

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Betway defends football shirt sponsorship deals

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Betway has defended the gambling industry’s ability to sponsor Premier league football shirts in the wake of Labour’s proposals to ban gambling firms sponsoring football shirts. Since February 2015, Betway has been the official shirt sponsor of West Ham United, this season’s extension of the partnership, means The Hammers are one of nine Premier League clubs with a gambling company …

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William Hill – UK awaits landscape changing by-election results

SBC News William Hill – UK awaits landscape changing by-election results

With the crucial constituency by-elections of Stoke-on-Trent Central (Staffordshire) and Copeland (Cumbria) taking place tomorrow, William Hill politics believes that the results may set the agenda for the future of UK politics. Updating its by-election markets, William Hill details that political punters are speculating that the results could spark a change of leader for different parties and even mark a …

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Too Late! No gambling provisions to be attached to the Wales Bill

SBC News Too Late! No gambling provisions to be attached to the Wales Bill

The UK government will not allow the ‘Wales Bill’ to be amended in order to add new gambling legislations for the national assembly. On Monday Labour and Plaid Cymru attempted to add ‘final hour’ provisions to the bill, seeking to give the Welsh assembly the right to restrict and regulate gambling machines on betting shop premises. Late in the game …

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William Hill – Smith has slim labour leadership chances despite Khan endorsement

SBC News William Hill - Smith has slim labour leadership chances despite Khan endorsement

This weekend’s shock news that London Mayor Sadiq Khan has sided with Owen Smith against Jeremy Corbyn in the Labour Leadership Election has seen bookmaker William Hill reduce its odds on Smith winning party leadership from 11/2 to 9/2. Khan who had been thought of as a ‘Corbyn stalwart’, changed his position on the current Labour leader, citing that the …

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UK Bookmakers cool on Owen Smith Labour leadership ambitions

SBC News UK Bookmakers cool on Owen Smith Labour leadership ambitions

UK bookmakers appear adamant that Jeremy Corbyn will keep his position as Labour Party leader despite the electoral challenge of Shadow Work & Pensions Secretary Owen Smith. Smith will now challenge Corbyn at the upcoming Labour Party Elections on 24 September as sole leadership candidate, with Angela Eagles (Shadow Secretary of Business) having yesterday announced her departure from the race …

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