MP Tracey Crouch, the chief of the government review team investigating the potential max buy-in change for Fixed Betting Odds Terminal machines, has called the Daily Mail’s allegations that Chancellor Philip Hammond is blocking any progress as ‘fake news.’ 

The electronic roulette machine in my mate’s local bookies winks at him as he places his bets on the gee-gees.

Frank, is one of a myriad of people shovelling £1.8 billion per year into the mouth’s of these machines, commonly referred to in the press as Fixed Odds Betting Terminals (FOBTs).

He doesn’t win.