Gambling review must get balance right to fight lure of black market - BGC chief

The Betting and Gaming Council (BGC) said the UK gambling review must strike the right balance when tackling problem gambling or it risks driving millions of punters "into the arms of the black market".

Council chief executive Michael Dugher also challenged the "minority of anti-gambling prohibitionists in parliament" in response to a special report by the Racing Post on the campaign by cross-party politicians to introduce strict affordability checks and ban gambling advertising.

The Centre For Social Justice, the think tank founded by former Conservative party leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith, published a report in May entitled Not A Game: A call for effective protection from the harms of gambling, which was endorsed by Labour MP Carolyn Harris.