The election connection
So what exactly was the result of Thursday's election? And what will it mean for the industry? Frankly we're unsure, but today's Need To Know has rounded up all the views of the experts that are.
SO, Britain has gone to the polls and the winner is”¦ well, actually we’re not sure.
Yes, unless you’ve only just woken from a coma, you’ll already be aware that the UK is all but set to have a hung parliament following yesterday’s general election.
David Cameron’s Conservatives failed to win the majority they needed to take power the normal way, and our (unelected) incumbent prime minister has indicated that his ruling Labour party will use its constitutional right to try to form a government – leaving third party Liberal Democrats in a powerful position despite their, um, actually having done rather disappointingly at the polls.
Anyway, this much you know. What you might not yet know is how any of this might affect your egaming business.
Lucky for you, eGaming Review was already on the case.
In our Winning the eGaming Vote feature ahead of yesterday’s shenanigans, we quizzed the most knowledgeable politicos in the industry about what each of Britain’s three main parties would do for the industry.
And today’s blog post from lobbyist and gambling industry consultant Steve Donoughue assesses just what today’s (sort of) result means. Sorted.
Piggy-backing the election interest, meanwhile, is William Hill, which yesterday launched Orbis’ LiveOdds in-play product to try and get in on the election betting action.
Which, as the latest Oddschecker Top 10 makes clear, no-one operator has dominated despite investment in election markets from UK giants such as Betfair.
Still, at least we’re sure who came out on top.
Also this week: Apple’s turnaround on gambling ‘apps’ with Betfair; PartyGaming’s first quarter and new France B2B deal; our Spain Market Focus and how Unibet is wagering on legal US egaming.
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