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Betfair projects a bleak outlook for the Conservative Party and its plans to remain in government as the UK’s next General Election looms. At this week’s Party Conference in Manchester, Betfair announced: “Punters on the Exchange are backing the Conservatives to lose more than 201 seats (5/2 – 29% chance) at the next general election.” The favoured outcome among Betfair …

A week of contrasting fortunes cast on PM Rishi Sunak and leadership adversary Boris Johnson sees Betfair Politics revise its markets on the future of a divided Conservative Party.  The passing of a revised Northern Ireland Protocol Bill has strengthened PM Sunak’s credentials to lead the Conservatives into a likely 2024 General Election. Former PMs Boris Johnson and Liz Truss …

The whirlwind period of July to September of 2022 saw gambling caught up in a farce of political affairs, providing leadership no help to navigate the headwinds of a changing economic climate. Interim results saw all gambling PLCs outline deep concerns on averse macroeconomic trends driven by high inflation and the costs of living crisis. Challenging factors to test the …

Michelle Donelan has kept her ministerial role as Secretary of State for the department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sports (DCMS).   Yesterday afternoon, new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak declared no changes to DCMS’ leadership, a department that has witnessed 11 secretarial changes in the past 12 years. An appointment of PM Liz Truss’ short-lived premiership, Donelan replaced Nadine Dorries as …

As political commentators across the UK speculate which Conservative politician could be next to haunt the corridors of Number 10 Downing Street, bettors appear to be backing Rishi Sunak and Penny Mordaunt as the “clear frontrunners” to succeed Liz Truss. According to Smarkets, Sunak has been given a 48% chance to become the next Prime Minister. Mordaunt, meanwhile, follows close …

Betting exchanges have cited a whirlwind weekend pricing ‘Storm Liz’, as once again speculation swirls around a Conservative Party mutiny against its leader.  Less than six weeks in office, PM Liz Truss is fighting for survival, as her chaotic economic recovery plan was ripped up by new chancellor Jeremy Hunt in an address this morning. Short on friends and allies …

Safer Gambling Week (#SGWeek2022) has been branded a ‘yearly deception’ which takes place every October by Gambling with Lives (GWL). The charity and reform group representing families bereaved by gambling-related suicide has called on MPs to ignore the industry-funded campaign that deflects from the real causes of gambling harms. Writing an op-ed on Commons news source PoliticsHome, GWL Strategy Director …

Anyone who attended the discussion on the Gambling Act review at the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham yesterday hoping for clarity may well have been dismayed.  Speaking on the ‘the gambling white paper and the future of reform’ panel on Tuesday afternoon, former Conservative leader and long-time gambling reform advocate Iain Duncan Smith stated that the White Paper is a …

Less than a month in charge, is PM Liz Truss premiership over following a week of chaos? The past seven days have seen the Bank of England and IMF at loggerheads with The Treasury related to the UK’s economic strategy… As speculation mounts of buyer remorse among Conservative peers, does PM Liz have enough support and friends to lead the …

 The office of 10 Downing Street has confirmed the appointment of Michelle Donelan as new Secretary of State for DCMS. The MP for Chippenham (Wiltshire) will replace incumbent Nadine Dorries, who has chosen not to serve in the senior cabinet of new PM Liz Truss, having stated her preference to ‘return to the backbenches’. Under PM Boris Johnson, Donelan served …