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Sign up to LabourList’s morning email for everything Labour, every weekday morning. Labour can stop rowing about whether we should abstain or vote against the Tory income tax cuts now, as the motion was put to the Commons last night. 20…
Sign up to LabourList’s morning email for everything Labour, every weekday morning. Tom Watson announces a fresh set of tough policies on the “public health emergency” that is “problem gambling” today. Labour is calling for a ‘whistle to…
This piece was commissioned by guest editor Jon Ashworth. Gambling addiction nearly destroyed and ended my life. It has severely impacted my mental health, affected my economic circumstances indirectly through afflicting those close to me…
Last month, after years of campaigning, the government finally moved to cut the maximum stake for fixed-odds betting terminals (FOBTs) from £100 to £2. This simple policy will work quickly and effectively to tackle the devastating impact of…
Sign up to LabourList’s morning email for everything Labour, every weekday morning. Today it was announced that the maximum stake on fixed-odds betting terminals (FOBTs) will be cut from £100 to £2. In agreeing to the change, the government…
I have been campaigning to see the stake that can be wagered on fixed odds betting terminals (FOBTs) reduced from £100 to £2 since I was first elected to parliament in 2015. My interest in the machines and the damage they were doing peaked…
This is the full text of the speech delivered by Labour deputy leader and shadow culture secretary Tom Watson. Conference, thank you for being here. Thanks for your enthusiasm, for your passion, for all your hard work on behalf of the…
The glint of the screen, the noise it makes, and the feeling of being ahead. There is nothing quite like walking out of the bookies with a wedge of £20 notes in your pocket. Back to the pub to meet your mates, just to find yourself back…
Football must play its part if Britain is to tackle the "hidden epidemic" of gambling addiction, Tom Watson said today as he called for an end to shirt sponsorship by betting companies. Labour's deputy leader spoke out as he published…
With chancellor Philip Hammond apparently having scrapped the review into fixed-odds betting terminals (FOBTs), now is the time for a serious and co-ordinated campaign in the Labour Party and in the country against the scourge of gambling…
I recently wrote to Scotland’s First Minister about the SNP’s duplicity on FOBTs and problem gambling. Empty SNP rhetoric simply doesn’t match their inactions. In a strongly worded response to my letter raising concerns about the SNP’s…
As the last Parliament closed, Fixed Odds Betting Terminals (FOBTs) remained one of the “barnacles” on the Tory boat that they failed to remove in advance of the general election. In the final two weeks before recess Sajid Javid and his…
