Tobias Ellwood, Tory former minister, says Rishi Sunak should be doing more to limit damage to Conservatives caused by controversy
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The Labour candidate Stella Creasy has said she will not be intimidated after a window and door of her office in north-east London was smashed by an attacker, Peter Walker reports.
The election date betting scandal first because public when it was reported that Craig Williams, who was Rishi Sunak’s parliamentary private secretary in the last parliament was being investigated over a bet he placed on a July election three days before the election was announced. He told the BBC that was a “huge error of judgment”.
It needs to be determined whether or not [Williams] had prior knowledge …
He said he made a bet and that was a mistake. We don’t know and I don’t believe anybody does know, maybe the Gambling Commission do … but we don’t know whether he did that with prior knowledge or whether that was just a hunch or whatever.
Continue reading…Tobias Ellwood, Tory former minister, says Rishi Sunak should be doing more to limit damage to Conservatives caused by controversySign up for the general election newsletter hereThe Labour candidate Stella Creasy has said she will not be intimidated after a window and door of her office in north-east London was smashed by an attacker, Peter Walker reports.The election date betting scandal first because public when it was reported that Craig Williams, who was Rishi Sunak’s parliamentary private secretary in the last parliament was being investigated over a bet he placed on a July election three days before the election was announced. He told the BBC that was a “huge error of judgment”.It needs to be determined whether or not [Williams] had prior knowledge …He said he made a bet and that was a mistake. We don’t know and I don’t believe anybody does know, maybe the Gambling Commission do … but we don’t know whether he did that with prior knowledge or whether that was just a hunch or whatever. Continue reading…