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National Lottery minimum age to rise to 18 from October in crackdown on gambling loophole

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Ministers are today announcing a crackdown on a “lottery loophole” which meant that under-18s were still able to gamble. A cross-party group of MPs has been campaigning to prevent the National Lottery “exploiting” vulnerable 16 and 17-year-olds.

They claimed that allowing youngsters to buy lottery tickets, scratch cards and play online games acted as a gateway to much harder forms of gambling.

The Mirror revealed last month that the Government was planning to close the loophole alongside a wide-ranging review of gambling laws.

It will now be illegal for any of the 40,000 shops which sell any National Lottery products to under-18s to do so from October.

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