A cross-party group of MPs has been campaigning to prevent the National Lottery “exploiting” vulnerable 16 and 17-year-olds. They claimed that allowing youngsters to buy lottery tickets, scratch cards and play online games acted as a gateway to much harder forms of gambling. It will now be illegal for any of the 40,000 shops which sell any National Lottery products to under-18s to do so from October. “Since the 2005 Gambling Act, Britain has fallen behind in gambling harm prevention. While it’s welcome the Government’s commited to raising the minimum age for the National Lottery to 18, this is just the start.

Source: Daily Mirror December 08, 2020 00:00 UTC