Deputy Leader of the Labour Party Tom Watson has called for the government to act “far more quickly” in reducing the maximum stake on fixed-odds terminals to £2. Watson, who is also Labour’s shadow culture secretary said wanted to turn the fixed-odds machines into the fruit machines of today so problem gamblers would lose less over time. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
