Prime minister Rishi Sunak’s decision last week to call a general election for July 4 has left a number of elements of planned gambling reforms in limbo.
For British horseracing the most obvious example was the collapse of talks between the sport’s leadership and bookmakers to come up with a voluntary deal on the levy.
However, that is not the only levy that looks as if it will be affected by recent events.
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