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Labour pledges to ban football shirt sponsorship by betting companies

6th September 2017 8:23 am GMT

The UK Labour Party has pledged to ban betting companies from signing shirt sponsorship deals with football clubs, deputy leader Tom Watson has announced.

The MP for West Bromwich and shadow minister for digital, culture, media and sport said that the party would put pressure on the Football Association to enforce a ban itself, but would be prepared to introduce legislation if necessary.

Revealed exclusively by the Guardian newspaper, which has run a series of stories critical [...]

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