With less than a week to go for the general election, the clear winner in the betting world is Labour.
Until Friday morning, the online betting site interwetten.com was taking bets for “Maltese Parliamentary elections”.
Labour was the favourite with odds of around 11/8 on a PL victory but the return was better on a Nationalist win at 3/1.
By Friday afternoon, the site had stopped taking bets on the Maltese election and most of the other online betting sites contacted by The Times said they were not offering odds on local elections.
Illegal betting in was also predicting a Labour victory.
Read the whole story in The Sunday Times.