After 15 years with the commission but less than three in his current role, the chief executive officer of the UK Gambling Commission, Neil McArthur, has announced he will be leaving his role. His resignation is with immediate effect and it is not understood to have been expected. However, it has been stressed that this…
Back in 2018, the trendy online banking app, Monzo, created a gambling block that enabled its customers to bar themselves from spending money on gambling products. A few years later, and the feature has had plenty of time to be tested, with the company claiming it was switched on over 275,000 times and less than…
Culture secretary, Oliver Dowden, has called the 15 year old gambling act an “analogue law in a digital age”, while launching the review into online gambling law reform. The pandemic held up the review which was supposed to begin earlier this year, but the first stages – known as a call for evidence – have…
Well that’s a turn up for the books! When he was deputy leader of the Labour party, Tom Watson was severally critical of the gambling industry, calling for serious change on a number of occasions. Now, just a year after resigning due to not getting along with Jeremy Corbyn, he has signed a contract with…
