Electioncast: Tory Candidates Suspended!
Newscast
BBC
4.4 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Today we look at the new that the Conservative Party has withdrawn support from Craig Williams and Laura Saunders, who are being looked into over alleged election betting.
Williams, the candidate in Montgomeryshire and Glyndŵr, and Saunders, the candidate in Bristol North West, are being looked into by the Gambling Commission
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, it's 1135 and Alex is here for us to have a team meeting about what we're going to do today. |
| 0:09.7 | Hello, I didn't know this was a team meeting. |
| 0:12.3 | Well, yeah, I mean, just just so we're all on the same page. |
| 0:14.3 | So the original plan was at lunchtime |
| 0:16.8 | we were going to record a special episode |
| 0:19.1 | that was kind of like a blockbuster merger of all our podcasts talking about how the media cover elections. |
| 0:25.4 | So we were going to do a tie-up with the Today podcast and when it hits the fan from Radio 4. |
| 0:30.8 | And you and me were going to do that. |
| 0:32.1 | Yeah, that's right, but it's not even that |
| 0:34.0 | time yet. This is a what is this a pre-meeting meeting meeting? Well the thing is we've got |
| 0:37.3 | some breaking news to deal with. Yes of course we have and this is about the |
| 0:40.9 | latest on the accusations that people connected to the Tory party, |
| 0:44.8 | including a couple of candidates, had bet on the date of the snap election. |
| 0:49.6 | And so we will discuss that in this episode of Newscast. |
| 0:52.4 | Newscast. |
| 0:52.6 | Newscast. |
| 0:53.6 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 0:55.1 | People do call me to show up Jenny elect. |
| 0:57.4 | Whaling day will be on Thursday the 4th of July. |
| 1:00.6 | No way. |
| 1:02.0 | Thank you about town. |
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