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Key Player Emerges in UK Gambling Politics

UNITED KINGDOM – As reported by This is London: "A former Labour minister and crony of the disgraced late Robert Maxwell has emerged as a key figure in the threatened gambling revolution.

"Lord Donoughue was a member of the Parliamentary committee which scrutinised the controversial Gambling Bill.

"Of the committee's 16 members, 14 had links to the gambling industry - including the peer who disclosed that he owns shares in the casino giant Stanley Leisure.

"But MPs from all parties have voiced alarm at his failure to reveal that his son Steve heads a lobby firm which represents a string of big gambling companies.

"Steve Donoughue, 34, set up the Gambling Consultancy to offer firms access to 'key decision makers', including his father's former colleagues in Government…"

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