Hello and welcome to coffee house shots the Spectators Daily Politics Podcast.

I'm Isabel Hardman and this is the Sunday roundup.

Ritchie Sunak has ended up in more controversy this week over a scandal about allegations

of betting on the election date.

Multiple Conservatives and their associates are being investigated by the Gambling Commission

following some unusual betting patterns.

This morning it emerged that the Tory's chief data officer Nick Mason was part of the inquiry.

On Sky News, Trevor Phillips asked Home Secretary James cleverly

if this was an example of his party's moral decay.

Prime Minister talked two weeks ago about the moral mission of your government to reform welfare.

Let's talk about morality, is it a sign of the Conservative Party's moral decay

that some of your colleagues were more interested in stuffing their own pockets

by gambling on the date of the election than on helping hard-pressed families hit by the cost of living.

Well I'm not in any way going to defend people that place bets on that.

There is an investigation by the gambling commission and we have been told very, very clearly that we are not to discuss the investigations, but the broad point is that...

What you do know is it's not just one or two people.

But as I say, look, this is pretty thoroughgoing, there's a lot of them.

As far as one can make...

That's not my understanding.

There are a bunch of investigations.

No, that's not my understanding.

My understanding is that it is a small number of individuals.

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