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Today in Focus

Election Extra: All bets are off

Today in Focus

The Guardian

Daily News, News

4.65.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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The Conservatives have been hit with further irregular gambling allegations and the party’s campaigns director has taken a leave of absence. Archie Bland reports. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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This message was paid for by Tesco. From the Guardians today in focus this is election extra with me Lucy Hoff this evening all bets are off. If you thought things couldn't get any worse for the Tories, they have.

0:49.0

If it was one of my candidates, they'd be gone and their feet would not have touched the floor.

0:54.0

Senior ministers like Michael Gove already standing down seem resigned to their fate.

1:00.0

I'm a Scotland Fair so you wait until the final whistle.

1:03.4

Sometimes it looks as though the odds are against you,

1:05.8

but you keep on fighting.

1:07.3

And party leaders are preparing for their next televised grilling tonight,

1:11.0

but is there such a thing as too many TV debates?

1:16.0

Well with me is Archie Bland editor of the election edition newsletter

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Archie it's genuinely quite difficult to know where to start today,

1:26.0

but I think let's start with this betting scandal.

1:29.0

Can you just first of all run me through the sequence of events that have brought us to where we are now.

1:34.5

Yes, absolutely. If I sound a bit bewildered as I do it, it's because it really has been a bewilderingly bad

1:40.0

24 hours of the Tories, even in the context of their campaign so far but yes let's start with the

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betting scandal so you will remember that last week pippa creira of the guardian revealed that

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