Senior aide Craig Williams bet £100 to win £500 with online sportsbook Ladbrokes just three days before Sunak’s surprise announcement on May 22 that the election would be held on July 4.
Senior aide Craig Williams bet £100 to win £500 with online sportsbook Ladbrokes just three days before Sunak’s surprise announcement on May 22 that the election would be held on July 4.The U.K.’s Gambling Commission is looking into whether or not an election wager placed by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s parliamentary private secretary violates British law.
“I’ve been contacted by a journalist about Gambling Commission inquiries into one of my accounts and thought it best to be totally transparent,” Williams said in a statement. “I put a flutter on the general election some weeks ago. This has resulted in some routine inquiries and I confirm I will fully cooperate with these. I don’t want it to be a distraction from the campaign, I should have thought how it looks.
Williams may have also caused damage to the reputation and integrity of parliament, which would violate the members’ code of conduct because the bet was placed while parliament was still in session. Sunak shockingly announced that the election would come months before it was supposed to take place in hopes that the Conservative Party would gain an advantage.
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