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The journalist Will Hayward has said on twitter he's heard rumours of another Welsh Conservative politician (not an MP) being investigated.
Meanwhile there was a Labour MP who bet on the Tories winning his seat....
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clmmy8e12vyo
Where’ve you been in this thread up to now? We’ve missed you - he wasn’t an MP, it was a Conservative held seat, and he’d been discussed, and condemned, in this thread already.
Meanwhile, there’s now a Cabinet member and a Welsh AM to add to the list.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czkk0d19kgdo
https://www.theguardian.com/politics...rowing-scandal
Quite a feisty debate between Sunak and Starmer on the BBC tonight! I think the take-home message was that a big proportion of people are still undecided who to vote for. The audience member Robert said it all when he asked the question "are you the best two on offer"!
I thought I’d figured out this betting scandal, the term “insider trading” has been used in describing the allegations against the original people named in the bets placed on the date of the election and its that which is wrong about them. Stacks of people play the markets and most of them are not indulging in insider trading - rightly, no action is taken against them because they’re doing nothing wrong, that’s how I tend to think about politicians betting in general.
For example, I don’t see what this bloke did wrong
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czkk0d19kgdo
apart from make an ill judged joke about how much he’d won, However, then you get a case like this one which has broken overnight and this just seems wrong to me, presumably because of the amount allegedly bet on the outcome of the constituency the MP is standing in - there’s no “insider trading” involved, but it just feels wrong.
https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/ph...st%20Yorkshire.