Sunday 19 June 2022 12:52 AM Campaigners call out Government's gambling tsar who has not met with bereaved ... trends now
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The boss of the Government’s gambling regulator has not been to a high street betting shop and has been to just one casino since taking up his role a year ago.
Andrew Rhodes has also not made any visits to online gambling companies since beginning his £150,000-a-year job in June 2021. Will Prochaska, from Gambling With Lives, a charity that supports families bereaved by gambling-related suicide, said last night: ‘It’s concerning that the chief executive of the Gambling Commission has held regular meetings with CEOs of gambling companies and industry lobbyists, but hasn’t yet found the time to visit a betting shop where he would be able to witness the damage this industry does.
‘Neither has he yet made time to hold a meeting with bereaved
