Chancellor doesn't rule out raising gambling taxes after report said it could lift 500,000 children out of poverty
The chancellor has declined to rule out raising taxes on gambling after a thinktank said the move could raise £3.2bn for the public coffers and cover the cost of lifting 500,000 children out of poverty.
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