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Gambling legislation to be introduced this week with ‘minor’ revisions

Anika Wells says the government’s legislation to tackle online gambling advertising will be introduced this week, but despite widespread calls to make them tougher, the bill will only include “minor revisions”.

The differences between the exposure draft and the legislation will be evident. But Mel [Clarke], they’re minor. There’s nothing that is particularly substantive that will alter people’s views of the legislation, given that these are very deeply entrenched views from all sides on this particular issue.

These are minor revisions.

We’ve consistently said that our social media minimum age law is a world first. It’s going to need to be flexible and adaptable.

I think we can all agree we would like the scheme to work better than it is currently, but that is on big tech taking the mickey.

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