Powell comments on leak of the Gambling White Paper

Lucy Powell MP, Labour’s Shadow Culture Secretary, commenting on a leak of the Gambling White Paper, said:

“Not only do we have a Tory MP appearing to offer to pass on the Gambling White Paper for cash, the Conservatives now seem to be leaking parts of it to the press.

“We’ve had ten different ministers in charge of gambling policy since a White Paper was first promised. This chaos serves no one.

“We urgently need to update analogue gambling regulation so it is fit for the digital age, yet the Conservatives’ failure to govern means we are still waiting for proposals to be published and debated in Parliament.”

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·         Leaked measures on gambling have appeared in The Sun newspaper: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/21957350/gambling-under-25-banned-plans-2-pound-bets-online/