Will “gamblegate” scandal obliterate the Tories Forever? Plus last few days of the election with Liz Bates
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Pod Save the UK
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🗓️ 27 June 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
With just one week to go until the election, Rishi Sunak’s chances of avoiding a landslide defeat might have just got slimmer - all thanks to “gamble-gate”.
Nish and Coco are joined by political correspondent Liz Bates to discuss the betting scandal plaguing the government. Sunak vowed to lead the world in “standards of decency” but has been very slow to act. Might this mean a complete wipeout for them?
But that’s not all the scandals this week. Education secretary Gillian Keegan has repeatedly used a claim about children being taught there are “72 genders” to back up government plans to ban schools from talking about gender identity. Nish, Coco and Liz investigate her so-called sources.
And from politicians playing minecraft to the Reform UK Party singing the Spice Girls, the WTF moments are multiplying. Nish, Coco and Liz dissect their favourites from the week.
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Liz Bates, Political Correspondent, Sky News
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| 0:00.0 | Rishi Sunak's election gamble is not paying off. |
| 0:14.6 | From a quickly deleted advert warning voters not to bet on labour to a betting scandal that's engulfed his own party. |
| 0:21.2 | I put a bet on myself using the F word several times in this episode. |
| 0:24.3 | I'm Nish Kamar and I'm Koko Khan and this is Pod Save the UK. |
| 0:28.1 | With one week to go until polling day we'll be discussing Gamblegate, the return of |
| 0:32.1 | ugly culture wars and looking back on the campaign. |
| 0:34.4 | And to chew through it all with us, we're joined by a political correspondent and friend of the show, |
| 0:39.7 | Liz Bates, Lizzy B, to her the girls, but first... |
| 0:43.0 | We are conducting inquiries, as I say, at the moment, in parallel because I don't have details of the |
| 0:47.9 | gambling commission's inquiries. |
| 0:48.9 | They're independent of us. |
| 0:49.9 | It's not only the case of they might have acted in that. |
| 0:52.0 | We, Craig Williams has admitted it. |
| 0:54.0 | Again, there are very serious independent investigations. |
| 0:58.0 | He was your PX. He's wet you down, hasn't he? |
| 1:00.0 | There are very serious independent investigations being conducted |
| 1:04.1 | including by the police and that's why it's not appropriate for me to provide a running |
| 1:08.8 | commentary on that. That was Ritchie Sunak, the man with I think the least fun job in the Western world on I TV |
| 1:16.3 | News discussing the revelation that members of the Conservative Party have been embroiled |
| 1:20.4 | in a gambling scandal at the time of recording at least 15 Tories are |
| 1:25.1 | involved in allegedly placing bets around the timing of the UK general election |
| 1:29.1 | in what has to be the dumbest way the Conservative Party could have blown up its own political |
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