Rory Campbell, son of former Tony Blair spin chief Alastair Campbell, gave punting advice on the Bet The House podcast, recommending a bet against Jeremy Corbyn in his Islington North constituency. Corbyn retained his seat with a significant majority, leaving those who followed Campbell's advice disappointed.
Just before the general election, gambling podcast Bet The House introduced listeners to a 'political betting expert' who was, allegedly, 'right at the top of his game'. His name was Rory Campbell, who is perhaps better known as the eldest child of Tony Blair's former spin chief Alastair. Rory, 37, is an Oxford graduate who parlayed a gift for mathematics into a career as a sort of professional gambler.
A keen poker player, who competed at the 2011 World Series in Las Vegas, he more recently worked as a football analyst, using algorithmic models to measure the value of players and predict the outcome of matches. On the domestic front, Campbell Jr is also, like many members of his family, something of a political junkie. Or, as Bet The House host Nick Luck, a former Channel 4 racing presenter, put it 'a man whose knowledge of the intricacies of football betting is matched only by who won what seat when and how'. During the course of the podcast, Rory was therefore asked to advise how listeners might profit from Polling Day. His advice? To have a punt on Jeremy Corbyn, who was standing as an independent in Islington North (having been kicked out of Labour) suffering a shock defeat to his former party's official candidate. 'This happens to be my constituency,' he said. Rory Campbell, right, with his father Alastair and brother Calum at West Ham's London Stadium 'Initially my expectation was actually that he was going to do very well. But I've been a bit kind of underwhelmed by the local feeling around it really. And I am a big believer, in this election particularly, the national narrative is going to really, really over-ride the local one. So I would bet Labour at the prices, yeah.' Those who took Rory's advice will, as it happens, have lived to regret it: Corbyn actually managed to hold the seat with a thumping 7,000-vote majority. Yet they won't be the only punters who feel they've been sold a pup by the son of Britain's most famous spin docto
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