A Tory MP who has been paid £32,000 by the betting business despatched non-public letters to ministers warning them in regards to the penalties of introducing powerful new legal guidelines on “innocent playing”.
Laurence Robertson, the MP for Tewkesbury, is paid £2,000 a month by the Betting and Gaming Council (BCG), the lobbying group that represents bookmakers. Final yr he loved free tickets price hundreds of kilos to look at cricket at Lord’s, horse racing at Doncaster and soccer at Wembley, courtesy of the playing business.
The Occasions has obtained a personal e mail despatched by Robertson, 63, to the playing minister warning of the dangers of harder laws. It was despatched at in regards to the time that the federal government introduced a crackdown as a part of a overview of the Playing
