The church’s national body unanimously passed a motion urging the government to bring forward proposals to reduce the amount gamblers can stake on a single game from £100 to £2.
Around 35,000 fixed-odds betting terminals (FOBTs), or B2 machines, are found in betting shops across the UK, on which gamblers can stake a maximum of £2 for sports-based games.
But the church’s General Synod in London was told casino games such as roulette available on FOBTs allow a stake of up to £100 every 20 seconds – allowing a player to theoretically gamble away £18,000 an hour.
Described as the crack cocaine of gambling, they take around £70 million every week, according to the Gambling Commission, often from people in some of the UK’s most deprived com…
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