Stop The Bets!
The Politics Show
The New Statesman
4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
The Tory gambling scandal respawned last night when it was revealed that a met officer working in Rishi Sunak's protection team had been arrested over alleged bets, and also being looked into by the Gambling Commission is Laura Saunders - a Conservative candidate who happens to be married to the director of campaigns in CCHQ.
The team also discuss the three polls published last night; while the predictions may differ, all roads lead to disaster for the Conservatives.
Hannah Barnes, associate editor, is joined by Rachel Cunliffe, associate political editor, and Freddie Hayward, political correspondent.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a story about a fugitive who's been on the run for more than 30 years. |
| 0:06.0 | A good American is a dead American. |
| 0:09.0 | And the special agent who spent decades trying to bring him to justice. |
| 0:13.0 | If he had hung himself, I wouldn't have lost no wink asleep. |
| 0:16.0 | It's about a man whose crimes appear to have simply drifted away. |
| 0:21.0 | Or have they? I'm Chloe Hadgemotho. From Tortoise, this is The Gas Man. |
| 0:27.6 | Listen wherever you get your podcasts. The New Statesman. |
| 0:37.0 | Statesman. |
| 0:42.0 | Hello, I'm Hannah Barnes, Associate Editor at The New Statesman and you're listening to the New |
| 0:46.5 | Statesman podcast. During this general election we are bringing you a daily episode of the |
| 0:51.4 | podcast with updates on party policy |
| 0:54.4 | announcements reaction from around the UK and the latest analysis with our |
| 0:59.8 | experts. We're back in the studio today and I'm joined by Rachel Kunliff, Associate Political |
| 1:05.2 | Editor and our political correspondent Freddie Haywood. Hello both. Hello. |
| 1:11.4 | We have to start really not with anything that the parties want to be talking about but this extraordinary unfolding story of the Tory betting scandal. That's what I'm going to call it anyway. |
| 1:24.3 | Difficult to imagine anything potentially more damaging to the party. |
| 1:28.9 | I'll kick off with where this started, which was last week, week former MP now candidate for Montgomery |
| 1:34.4 | here Craig Williams close aid to the prime minister it was it emerged that he'd |
| 1:40.8 | placed a hundred pound bet in the run-up to Rishi Sunak's announcement |
| 1:45.8 | of the election saying that there's going to be election. |
| 1:48.2 | It's got much bigger today. |
| 1:50.1 | Freddie, what's been happening over the last 24 hours or so that's changing this? |
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