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We're in Chingford and Woodford Green, a key Labour Conservative marginal,

where the seat is being fought by the former Conservative Party leader

Ian Duncan Smith, and to put it mildly, he is not impressed by the alleged behaviour of some of those

around Rishi Sunak and bets placed on the date of the general election.

I just think it's people being incredibly stupid and venal when they do that sort of thing.

First of all, what the hell are they doing, betting anyone on an election? They're meant to fight it.

I said to you earlier on, this is a vocation. So as a vocation, you need to behave like it's a vocation.

And your job is to try and get your party back into government. It's not to play games with it.

So there is unacceptable, and whatever happens to them wouldn't be hard enough in my book.

You're going to hear more from Ian Duncan Smith and others later in this episode.

But we're going to start with a question.

What on earth is going on at the heart of the conservative campaign and these allegations into dodgy bets.

Welcome to the newsagents.

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It's John. It's Emily. And we are in Chingford and Woodford Green until the general election

was called the constituency of Ian Duncan

Smith where he is facing an uphill struggle and we will come to the constituency in a moment

but we need to start by talking about the headwinds that are rocking the conservative campaign

right now with the news that the director of campaigning's wife, who is a Tory candidate, is being investigated

for betting on the date of the general election when presumably she knew when that was going to be

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