Curbs on internet gambling and logos for football shirts

The Times
 
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Online casinos will have to limit stakes to as little as £2 and Premier League clubs will be forced to remove gambling sponsors from the front of football shirts under government plans to be announced next month.

Ministers will publish a review of the 17-year-old gambling legislation amid concerns that it has been rendered outdated by the explosion in online betting.

The government is expected to announce maximum stakes of £2 to £5 for online gamblers using slot machines. People could be allowed to gamble more if they pass “affordability checks” to prove they are not making unsustainable losses. The move is to help create “parity” with the £2 limits introduced on addictive gambling machines called fixed-odds betting terminals. At present online stakes are not