U.K. Labour Party Deputy Tom Watson says that online casinos should have to reapply for their operating licenses after more than a third were found by the industry regulator to be "failing customers."

Watson wrote to the chief executive of the Gambling Commission and Jeremy Wright, the culture secretary, to question the integrity of many operators, most of which operate from overseas, on the heels of four gambling businesses being fined a total of £4.5 million as part of a UKGC investigation into the online casino industry.

Watson told The Times:

"We cannot be continually playing catch-up to an opaque and agile global industry. We need a structured response to the situation. This will require a total overhaul of our register of current remote sector licences. A UK licence should not be used as a platform for offshore operators to use the reputation of British sport as a marketing tool for their own domestic audience, whereby the benefits of the UK market are enjoyed but nothing is given back to address the harm that is caused."
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