Rishi Sunak's election gamble is not paying off.

From a quickly deleted advert warning voters not to bet on labour to a betting scandal that's engulfed his own party.

I put a bet on myself using the F word several times in this episode.

I'm Nish Kamar and I'm Koko Khan and this is Pod Save the UK.

With one week to go until polling day we'll be discussing Gamblegate, the return of

ugly culture wars and looking back on the campaign.

And to chew through it all with us, we're joined by a political correspondent and friend of the show,

Liz Bates, Lizzy B, to her the girls, but first...

We are conducting inquiries, as I say, at the moment, in parallel because I don't have details of the

gambling commission's inquiries.

They're independent of us.

It's not only the case of they might have acted in that.

We, Craig Williams has admitted it.

Again, there are very serious independent investigations.

He was your PX. He's wet you down, hasn't he?

There are very serious independent investigations being conducted

including by the police and that's why it's not appropriate for me to provide a running

commentary on that. That was Ritchie Sunak, the man with I think the least fun job in the Western world on I TV

News discussing the revelation that members of the Conservative Party have been embroiled

in a gambling scandal at the time of recording at least 15 Tories are

involved in allegedly placing bets around the timing of the UK general election

in what has to be the dumbest way the Conservative Party could have blown up its own political

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