Gordon Brown killed plans for a supercasino in Britain yesterday, provoking anger in Manchester and ending a six-year attempt to liberalise gambling that cost the taxpayer and industry millions of pounds.

The Prime Minister told MPs that he would consider whether there were “better ways” of improving poor areas, rejecting the case made by Tony Blair that casino expansion would bring jobs and money to deprived locations.

Government officials said that Mr Brown would still put before Parliament plans for 16 smaller casinos, which are likely to pass without objections. They are less politically contentious, in part because they will not contain the unlimited-stake, unlimited-prize slot machines, and Liberal Democrats and Conservatives have indicated they would vote for such plans.

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I'm not realy surprised that he did this. Watching the news coverage in the UK, it seems that most of the deals were done by way of brown paper bags
before it even reached Parliament.

However, having said that, the TV is always looking for an angle to make a story so whether it's true or not remains to be seen.

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