Philip Davies MP has said opponents of affordability checks must keep fighting after revealing there was frustration with gambling minister Stuart Andrew’s response to the parliamentary debate on Monday evening.
The debate in a packed Westminster Hall was triggered by a petition calling for the government’s proposals for controversial checks to be scrapped, which received more than 100,000 signatures.
A number of the MPs who spoke called for the government to think again, with Newmarket’s MP Matt Hancock describing the plans as “a mistake”, adding: “We must stop and we must start again.”
