How high in the Tory party does 'Gamblegate' go?
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🗓️ 23 June 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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The Sunday Times report that Nick Mason, the party's chief data officer, is the fourth Conservative being looked into over bets allegedly placed on the date of the general election. But still, no one has been suspended by Rishi Sunak. Why not? And, how far and how high does Gamblegate go? Could even someone as high up as a cabinet member be allegedly implicated?
And later, we talk Brexit 8 years on and Lewis is at a focus group in the crucial voting area and demographic of Whitby.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.1 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.7 | I totally understand that people want to know what's going on, but as I say, the gambling |
| 0:19.1 | commission have made it clear that I should not be discussing this. |
| 0:21.8 | But there could be more. There could be more. |
| 0:23.8 | Sorry, is that a question? |
| 0:24.6 | Yeah, there could be more. I'm asking you. There could be more. |
| 0:27.1 | Well, I don't know. I certainly don't know of any others. |
| 0:30.7 | That was the Home Secretary, James Cleverly, speaking to me this morning on LBC, |
| 0:34.3 | defending the government after yet another twist in the tale that is Gamblegate. |
| 0:39.3 | We woke up this morning to find the Sunday Times reporting that a fourth senior conservative, |
| 0:45.1 | in this case, the party's head of data, has been brought into the investigation by the |
| 0:50.4 | gambling commission, with at least four people senior in the Conservative Party reportedly placing a bet with at least four people, senior in the Conservative Party, |
| 0:55.4 | reportedly placing a bet, at least one bet, potentially several, on when the election date was going to be, |
| 1:02.2 | when of course they almost certainly knew when it was going to be. |
| 1:06.6 | You might think in that situation, given how furious the Prime Minister has said he is about it, |
| 1:11.8 | that the Conservative Party would do exactly the same thing that the police has done, |
| 1:15.8 | in suspending one of their officers who also appears to be involved, |
| 1:20.7 | having been a member of Rishi Sunak's closed protection team. |
| 1:24.8 | But the Conservative Party have not done that. |
| 1:29.3 | The people involved are still members of the Conservative Party. The question we're asking on today's episode is why. Why is |
| 1:35.3 | Rishi Sunak saying much, but doing so little? Welcome to the newsagents. The news agents. |
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