Staff at Paddy Power Betfair, chose samaritans as their charity of the year and are supporting it through fundraising, corporate donations and volunteering. Critics say samaritans shouldnt work with the gambling industry. Dan whitworth, from radio 4s money box programme, has more. If you are sat in the pub, you can tell a guy who is an alcoholic. Lets be honest, you can tell if a guy is on drugs. The man sat in the corner on his phone is gambling his life away and nobody knows because it is such a hidden thing. Critics, including relatives of people with gambling problems who took their own lives, say samaritans is risking its well earned reputation by working with Paddy Power Betfair, adding it should stop taking the compa nys money. The mp, carolyn harris, who chairs the all Party Parliamentary group on gambling related harm, says she is shocked by the deal. She calls it distasteful and appalling. Others on social media, as well as the Charity Gambling with lives have voiced similar
Eric you know quite simply mr speaker me and my colleagues we are said here by the people of scotland we have a majority the people of scotland want to turn him in and the European Union could not fun of him to. Find the right minister. Mr speaker the Prime Minister also must be paying attention to the polls this morning but show that the s. N. P. Is polling to win a majority in scotland once again with a tourism retreat so if you once an election unable the boat and but i get on. Here for all of us to see that the Prime Minister is playing a game of bluff and bluster he doesnt care about stopping in no deal grants it has strategy as his lead advisor put it as a sham this isnt a parliament this is the people. It is a problem and standing up for the people mr speaker the people dead no vote for the new deal break says this Prime Minister is robbing me people opposed finding could prove there was a me but no running number 10 so once again i ask the Prime Minister are you a dictator or a
Other parts of the world. It is 7 00am in the morning in singapore and midnight here in london, where the british Prime Minister, borisjohnson, has suffered two major setbacks for his brexit strategy. First, a Cross Party Group of mps was successful in getting a bill passed to prevent a no deal brexit. The bill potentially forces mrjohnson to do something that he has repeatedly ruled out, namely asking the eu for yet another brexit delay unless a deal is secured. The Prime Ministers response was to call for a general election on 15 october, but he failed to get sufficient support from mps. Our Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg reports on the days events. Are we through the Looking Glass now . The Prime Minister is demanding a new parliament over there, an election, yet he says he doesnt want one. The other parties say they do, but may yet stand in his way. It wont be settled until the commons closes the door on the possibility that borisjohnson could take us out of the eu next month wi
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Other parts of the world. It is 8 00am in the morning in singapore and 1 00am here in london, where the british Prime Minister, borisjohnson, has suffered two major setbacks for his brexit strategy. First, a Cross Party Group of mps was successful in getting a bill passed to prevent a no deal brexit. The bill potentially forces mrjohnson to do something that he has repeatedly ruled out, namely asking the eu for yet another brexit delay unless a deal is secured. The Prime Ministers response was to call for a general election on 15 october, but he failed to get sufficient support from mps. Our Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg reports on the days events. Are we through the Looking Glass now . The Prime Minister is demanding a new parliament over there, an election, yet he says he doesnt want one. The other parties say they do, but may yet stand in his way. It wont be settled until the commons closes a door on the possibility that borisjohnson could take us out of the eu next month withou