Tom Watson: Labour would ban gambling with credit cards
(The Guardian Money News)

Deputy leader says crackdown on betting industry necessary to tackle addiction `epidemic´Labour would ban the use of credit cards to place bets, affecting billions of pounds of transactions a year, as part of a crackdown on the gambling industry designed to tackle an `epidemic` of addiction.Deputy leader Tom Watson will this week publish the conclusions of the party´s year-long review of gambling regulations, which were liberalised under Tony Blair´s government in 2007. Continue reading...