UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown is considering retracting plans to allow the development of a Las Vegas-style 'super-casino.'
Despite four years of intense lobbying by gaming organisations, the incoming Prime Minister said he is reconsidering the possibility of regional casinos being built in the UK, and will be undertaking a review of the policy instigated by former Labour leader Tony Blair in September.
"This is an issue on which there is no consensus," Brown said. He later went on to state that the plans will be "subject to reflection over next few months’’ to see if there is a better way to "look at re-generation."
The news is likely to spark fury both in Manchester, the city that won the competition to run Britain’s first regional casino in January, and in Blackpool, which had appealed against the decision but had also hoped to be awarded a similar development in the future.
