Voters in 623 of 632 constituencies support new gambling tax to reduce child poverty, research shows

Embargoed until 6 November 2025

38 Degrees commissioned polling from Survation to look at public attitudes around scrapping the two child benefit limit, funded by a new tax on gambling companies. 

Survation surveyed 8,546 members of the public, asking:

To what extent, if at all, would you support or oppose an increase in taxes on gambling companies if the money was used to reduce child poverty? (Support/neither support nor oppose/oppose/don’t know).

In October 2025, Survation conducted a constituency level MRP analysis of the results. 

Key findings:

• On average, 64% of people said they support the proposal, with only 14% opposing.
• In almost every constituency, there is majority support for this proposal: only nine constituencies have support which is lower than 50% (623 out of 632 constituencies).
• Even in those nine constituencies, more people support the proposal than oppose it.
• In 187 constituencies, more than two thirds (66.66%) of people support it
• In almost every constituency, fewer than one in five people oppose it: the figure is below 20% opposing it all but five constituencies (627 out of 632)
• Ceredigion Preseli was the constituency with the highest level of support, with 79.52%, or four in five people supporting the plan. 
• Support for the proposal rose amongst older voters, with 75% of those aged 65+ supporting the proposal 
• Support amongst Lab ‘24 voters was at 70% and 73% amongst ‘24 Lib Dem voters.

Full data is available here.