One of Rishi Sunak's adjacent parliamentary aides is being investigated aft putting a £100 stake connected the election being held successful July, conscionable days earlier the PM announced the July 4 vote.
Craig Williams, the Prime Minister's parliamentary backstage secretary, is being probed by the Gambling Commission implicit his 5-1 'flutter' successful May.
The Tory campaigner for Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr said helium would co-operate with the committee implicit what helium said were 'routine inquiries'.
'I enactment a flutter connected the General Election immoderate weeks ago. This has resulted successful immoderate regular inquiries and I corroborate I volition afloat cooperate with these. I don't privation it to beryllium a distraction from the campaign. I should person thought done however it looks,' helium wrote successful a connection connected X.
Craig Williams, the Prime Minister's parliamentary backstage secretary, is being probed by the Gambling Commission implicit his 5-1 'flutter' successful May.
The Tory campaigner for Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr said helium would co-operate with the committee implicit what helium said were 'routine inquiries'.
On May 22 Mr Sunak announced July 4 would beryllium the day of the vote, extracurricular No10. That would person landed Mr Williams £500.
The Guardian reported Mr Williams placed a £100 with Ladbrokes from wrong Montgomeryshire connected May 19, backing a July election.
On May 22 Mr Sunak announced July 4 would beryllium the day of the vote, extracurricular No10. That would person landed Mr Williams £500. Ladbrokes raised the stake with the GC, which reportedly told No10 past week.
In a connection to the Guardian it said utilizing 'confidential accusation successful bid to summation an unfair vantage erstwhile betting ... whitethorn represent an offence of cheating nether conception 42 of the Gambling Act, which is simply a transgression offence.'
Jonathan Ashworth, Labour's shadiness paymaster general, said: 'These allegations are utterly extraordinary. Rishi Sunak has sat connected this accusation for much than a week but has lacked immoderate backbone to instrumentality action. Once again Rishi Sunak has been exposed arsenic utterly weak.'
A Conservative Party spokesperson said: 'We are alert of interaction betwixt a Conservative campaigner and the Gambling Commission. It is simply a idiosyncratic substance for the idiosyncratic successful question.
'As the Gambling Commission is an autarkic body, it wouldn't beryllium due to remark further, until immoderate process is concluded.'
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