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Gambling Bill moves to the House of Lords
26 January 2005
The government will be forced to make further concessions to secure the passage of its battered bill to reform Britain's gambling laws, MPs and peers predicted last night as it cleared its final hurdle in the Commons.
Tessa Jowell, the culture secretary, is determined to modernise the rules governing the fast-expanding industry, not least because of the increase in internet and other forms of globalised gambling.
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