Appointed as the new Chair of Trustees of GambleAware, Griffiths, a former Faculty President of Public Health England (PHE), is recognised as a distinguished public policy expert in the management and administration of healthcare networks.
Writing in the Commons news source PoliticsHome, Griffiths stated that the General Election tainted by the gambling scandal serves as a “stark reminder of how normalised gambling has become in our society”.
“In Britain, up to 4.8 million people experience harm from their own or someone else’s gambling – but how did we get here?”
As such, the Labour government must rectify the Gambling Act of 2005, which liberalised gambling within British society. This framework, implemented during Labour’s last tenure in office, has had devastating impacts compounded by further governments.
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