Close aide to the Prime Minister and candidate for Montgomeryshire & Glyndwr Craig Williams is 'fully cooperating' with a Gambling Commission investigation into a bet he made about the upcoming General Election.
Close aide to the Prime Minister and candidate for Montgomeryshire & Glyndwr Craig Williams is "fully cooperating" with a Gambling Commission investigation into a bet he made about the upcoming General Election.Mr Williams, the Conservative candidate for the Powys seat he held in the last Parliament under its previous name of Montgomeryshire, is being investigated by the commission for what he described as a"flutter" about the election, due to be held on July 4.
The report alleges Mr Williams made the bet with Ladbrokes in Montgomeryshire on May 19, three days before Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced the date of the election outside Downing Street. The statement on his page on X, formerly Twitter, said:"I've been contacted by a journalist about Gambling Commission inquiries into one of my accounts and thought it best to be totally transparent.
A Conservative Party spokesperson said: “We are aware of contact between a Conservative candidate and the Gambling Commission. It is a personal matter for the individual in question.
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