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Lithuanian-Australian businessman and Member of the European Parliament Antanas Guoga (Tony Guoga) has challenged UKIP leader Nigel Farage to a €1 million bet on Britain remaining in the European Union. Guoga the owner of European online betting operator Tonybet.com (Tonybet), made the challenge this morning as his firm declared that it would guarantee the best market price on LEAVE (BREXIT) …

This week has seen substantial alterations in the odds on a Brexit with the potential for a Leave vote reflected in the odds as they’ve moved from 3/1 to a 6/4 average across bookmakers. Jamie Loughead an Entertainment and Politics Trader at Star Sports discussed his views on the market’s fluctuation, and why he remains certain that Brexit won’t happen, with …

Bookmakers believe that the outcome of the UK ‘EU Referendum’ (23 June) is set to go down to the wire as ‘Leave’ and ‘Remain’ camps enter their final weeks of public campaigning.   Just as ‘Leave’ had reached its longest odds, with the majority of UK bookmakers pricing the outcome at 7/1. This week bookmakers have moved to slash the …

Following Labour’s success at the Oldham W/Royton by-election, bookmaker William Hill have increased their odds for party leader Jeremy Corbyn to stand down this year from 5/1 to 8/1. Labour’s victory though was UKIP’s failure in an area in which it expected to garner some support. This has led to William Hill shortening the odds from 3/1 to 9/4 for …

Spread betting company took ‘a bet a second’ in peak times over past 24 hours Leading spread betting firm Sporting Index were one of the winners of the 2015 general election, reporting a 200 per cent rise in new accounts and record bets taken. What was billed as the closest general election in recent memory saw phenomenal interest from punters …

Ladbrokes predicts that the forthcoming UK general election, will be the biggest political betting  market of all time. Ladbrokes announced to UK media and news sources that it expected a staggering £100 million to be wagered on the May vote, as the UK election heats up in the coming months. Ladbrokes Head of Political Betting Matthew Shaddick commented on the …