UK House of Lords Members Call for a Wide-Scale Ban on Gambling Ads
Members of the United Kingdom’s House of Lords are calling for a full-scale ban on gambling advertising across the UK, following a report by the House of Lords Liaison Committee which criticized the government for being “too passive” in responding to the rapid expansion of digital advertising of…
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