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1 Nov 2018

FOBT OFF: Minster quits over delay to fixed-odds betting terminals crackdown

Political Editor

The Minister for Sport, Tracy Crouch, has resigned in protest over a delay on a key government promise on Fixed Odds Betting Terminals (FOBTs).

The highly addictive machines can lose gamblers hundred of pounds in minutes. But the proposed reduction in the highest stake was delayed for a year.