The election flutters costing the Conservatives
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The Times
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🗓️ 25 June 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Five Conservative politicians are now being investigated by the Gambling Commission for allegedly placing bets on the date of the general election. Hundreds of pre-election bets are now being trawled for connections to the party. Rishi Sunak has withdrawn support from two of those under investigation but how bad could this get for the Tories?
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| 1:30.9 | From the Times and the Sunday Times this is the story. I'm Luke Jones. |
| 1:37.0 | It's not too long ago that we all thought the biggest thing that was going to trouble |
| 1:46.0 | the first week of July was Wimbledon. But then there were political whispers. A colleague of mine on the 19th of May, they were out for dinner with their spouse and they got a text message from a very senior conservative |
| 2:06.3 | and the text message just said simply election next week. |
| 2:11.9 | Harry York is Sunday Times deputy political editor. |
| 2:17.0 | By the 21st, the day before Ritchie |
| 2:20.0 | actually called the election, there was some real chatter starting to develop |
| 2:25.1 | across Whitehall because you had Danny Finkelstein who's obviously the |
| 2:29.1 | great Times columnist and very well-connected Conservative Pier who was on his How to win an election |
| 2:34.4 | podcast with Peter Mandelson and he had said that he was now picking up |
| 2:39.1 | noises. By that |
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