With less than a week to go before Londoners vote for their next Mayor, Khan's Conservative rival, Susan Hall, joined a leading clinician and a group of peers in questioning Transport for London's baffling decision to accept the campaign.
Despite Khan's 2021 manifesto pledge to ban gambling ads on London's transport network, TfL has continued to accept promotions for bookies and online casinos, pending an independent review of the links between advertising and gambling harm.
In recent weeks, 888.com had launched a campaign on the London Underground, trains, and buses, featuring slogans such as: This carriage is now a casino. Some black cabs carry the slogan Fancy a spin? But on Friday, after a request for comment from the Guardian, 888.com confirmed it would withdraw some of the ads.
The decision is thought to be a response to criticism of the tone in which the ads promote online casino games, which are associated with higher rates of harm than most other gambling products, according to NHS survey data.
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