Michael Gove has compared the Conservative betting scandal to Partygate, saying that it makes the public feel that there is “one rule for them and one rule for us”.
The Levelling Up Secretary, who is standing down at the general election, told the Sunday Times that the allegations were “very difficult to defend”. Yesterday the Sunday Times reported that Nick Mason, the Tories’ chief data officer, had become the fifth person to be named as part of a Gambling Commission investigation into bets placed on the date of the general election.
He told GB News: “People who are officials of the party should be focused on returning as many Conservative MPs as possible so we can form a government, so that we can serve the British people. “And anything other than that is inappropriate. So whilst I’m not going to discuss any of the details, people should focus exclusively on the people we’re here to serve.
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