The story about how gambling adverts were originally legalised in the UK is pretty interesting. The gambling companies threatened to take the Blair government

The story about how gambling adverts were originally legalised in the UK is pretty interesting. The gambling companies threatened to take the Blair government to the European Court of Competition on the grounds that it was unfair competition for National Lottery to permitted to advertise but not them [1]. The government took the threat seriously and then openly legalised gambling adverts. [1] (Mentioned in talk by a member of the original Budd Report team which laid the path for the 2005 Gambling Act) https://youtu.be/t_isuKNKAbs?t=926 https://youtu.be/t_isuKNKAbs?t=926