Tory betting scandal: senior Conservatives furious as further betting allegations could be made

[@drkmwinters]

As an American, you all are spoiled with only 6 weeks of campaigning. Honestly, you fail to appreciate how lucky you are.

[@robertcreighton4635]

I don't understand why usa elections seem to last forever. Do you get bored of it? 🇺🇸

[@concernednewfie]

That is not a upside, your 4 year election cycle is horrible. At least in the UK or Canada, the parliamentary system allows a complete collapse of whichever party the people are sick of. The end of days crying by the tories would be the first sign. But in America its a 4 year election that never ends, only to have things flip from 49/51 to 51/49. If you had a parliamentary system in America, the GOP would have had the same issue as this coming Tory meltdown.

[@alexbrandon2193]

Our elections in US are so long because there is no official campaign period. Congress never gets dissolved like parliament does. It’s possible for elected people to still meet and pass bills any day up to Election Day. So members of congress and presidential candidates just begin campaigning whenever they want.

[@robertcreighton4635]

@alexbrandon2193 thanks I never knew that.

[@DaChunkil8or]

Same with you lot with gun ownership, that would be great over here

[@davidraddings8211]

Taking the last bet before being sacked by the public. Greed above responsibility. You cannot make it up!

[@blurry67]

Using inside information to bet is not just unacceptable, Mr Gove. It's illegal.

[@richardruff8712]

Betting on a guaranteed certainty is also know as.... CHEATING....

[@t2twanks]

Please go out and vote, we need to vote out as many tories as possible

[@connclissmann6514]

Stop the Tories. Vote is a helpful website.

[@backofbeyond8110]

Sunak is such a tool. Who’s gonna vote for him? Nobody

[@bobsmith2794]

people still believe he' a decent bloke. it's painful. the members placing bets are just copying sunaks ways . if he can hand lucrative contracts to family members. he can't expect his party members to act honestly .

[@chrishyde1216]

Many people don't follow what's happening and would vote for a donkey if it was a Tory candidate.

[@t2twanks]

Some will still vote tory because they're rich or haven't got two brain cells to rub together

[@garyturner5739]

Sunank and his wife are as crooked as their staff are.

[@michaeladkins6]

Who has voted for him?

[@nomophobe]

I'm genuinely baffled about why anyone is voting Conservative at this point. If you lean to the left of the party you have parties like the LibDems, and on the right parties like Reform. And that's obviously ignoring the standard switch to Labour which is standard in this "two-party system". What even is the point of the Tories right now?

[@icedreamer9629]

There are a LOT of people out there who are racist but support Ukraine, and who perceive the number of people who "just don't want to work" as 15%, not 1%.

[@pip1723]

Never mind stop the boats it should be stop the bets ....

[@jsd8981]

True...

[@Kiltoonie]

That is not as easy as you might think. How exactly? Being on the water in a boat is not illegal, and all sailors have a duty to protect life.

[@alanwatterson2850]

Send them to Rwanda😁

[@tomb407]

Stealing the lightbulbs on the way out Jail these people and set an example

[@John-se7rc]

Yet they ignore the 12 million people forced into poverty by the tories catastrophic incompetence and greed. Shows where their priorities lie 😂😂😂

[@Kx0195]

Crazy to think that 1/5 inhabitants of this island are languishing in poverty and we're a first world country. What an embarrassment we are.

[@jamieround2784]

It will be even worse under labour and that’s why we cannot let them take power.VOTE REFORM

[@garyturner5739]

But their going down on 4th July. Little celebration on Friday night.

[@simony2801]

And you a land of milk and honey after the election, get real loser.

[@marvellis6762]

Absolutely appalling conduct from this corrupt amateur no mandate soon to be removed government. The public are beyond angry now.

[@davidopsina3871]

His wife is a proper corrupt. Makes him look like a saint that one does.

[@garyturner5739]

I can't wait for that day when his removed. 10 more sodding days to go before it happens.

[@richardcoppack5357]

Once again, this demonstrates the Conservatives "sense of entitlement ". This means that the rules don't apply to them. Another good example was Nadhim Zahawi, who allowed himself to be Chancellor whilst being investigated by the HMRC.

[@markstamp3937]

The fact that there are persistent rumours about more names means it is true. It is also the only possible reason to explain why he didn't suspend candidates who had no chance of winning so would have made no difference

[@bearwoody]

By not removing the candidates, the optics sadly reveal that Rishi approves of the appearance of impropriety

[@terrymann1341]

Also he thinks that if he does he'll be lucky to scrape in with 100 seats, but then again, he might not be in that number himself. Not a good look, to be only the second PM to lose his seat at a general election since 1906..

[@bearwoody]

@@terrymann1341 It's hard to feel sorry for someone with so much money, but good grief, the only thing worse that could happen to him would be a video news report showing that pictures of himself makes babies cry

[@HughTVDX]

They're a bunch of spivs and wideboys who will find themselves unemployable from late next week.

[@20quid]

Sunak and his team have been instructed by the Gambling Commission they are unable to say or do anything material in relation to the accused individuals. So they're stuck between a rock and a hard place.

[@lizdocherty3067]

​@@20quidsay anything he could still suspend them pending the outcome of the investigation, does that not happen to many people in the workplace.

[@waynestockton8953]

If Sunak didn't have a bet himself who put the bet on for him

[@rolandrimann8788]

Tories are finished and good riddance.

[@Tigger-roo1234]

Dont forget..Sunak still owes £1000 to Piers Morgan..😂😂😂

[@Burglar-King]

Why does he owe £1000. What did they do? 😂

[@karmaascendant3936]

@@Burglar-Kinghe bet that there’d be a flight to Rwanda before the election.

[@isbestlizard]

The betting scandal would be over in 30 seconds if rishi simply revealed whether he'd told each of the election plan, before they placed their bet. This doesn't take a years long 'independent investigation' by the gambling commission, followed by an 'independent investigation' by the police. Just answer one question.

[@alganhar1]

In an ideal world you would be right. Problem is you are talking about politics... Meaning the ideal world goes out of the window onto the trash heap which is then doused in fuel and set alight

[@johnmorgan7758]

Votereform vote reform. Hello knows we're still here fvkthe opinion.polls your in for the biggest shock in a 100 yrs

[@lizdocherty3067]

One of them has admitted he did it, so why can't he be fired ?

[@Msax50]

When has a politician ever answered a question ? I wish I was shocked

[@rogerhudson9732]

The common law offence " Misconduct in a Public Office" (maximum sentence life imprisonment) should apply to more than just the policeman.

[@JohnSmall314]

We need to campaign to get the ex-director of public prosecutions to apply the law to Johnson & co. There's no sign of interest in doing that yet, but the law has to be applied to the rich and powerful as well as people lower down or we can't say we live in a country governed by the rule of law.

[@AnthonyNickson-r3t]

sunak appointed bravamen again - the press knew then that his promises were nothing

[@user-bu9nb8wr6e]

So the tories are upset about someone having a few quid on with the bookies but don't get upset by Sunaks clear conflicts of interest and corruption.

[@VincentPeters-vs2us]

This election month can be measured like an advent calendar. Each day we open a door the Tories give a gift to their opposition. Reputations are not worth the death certificates that they are written on these days.

[@marksheyworth7888]

the fixed term act stopped them from making money betting on the date

[@stoobydootoo4098]

Not necessarily; a term could be less, and insiders could bet before the announcement.

[@redlightmax]

Tory betting scandal: senior Conservatives furious as colleagues get caught: "We told them to use an accomplice to make the bets"🥁

[@lizdocherty3067]

Heard the gambling commission is looking into that as well, asking bookies to report all election date votes just before Sunak announced the election. They might have had a syndicate and they got their grannies to place bets in different bookies.😅😅

[@mariacrouch7109]

TORIES AT IT AGAIN WITH YET ANOTHER SCANDAL

[@dyemanoz]

Voting should be compulsory.

[@artistreality]

I can honestly say this will be the first election I will hoping the day after voting day, the Tories are done politically. I'm actually surprised anyone is even voting for them.

[@rarecockneyguvnor4945]

Crooked Westminster

[@JustinTimeEnglishClip]

This is nothing. Larger bets were placed on the stock market over Brexit and Liz Truss. A fair few millionaires were made there.

[@heliotropezzz333]

6 weeks. Time for a lot of scandals to emerge.

[@bobsmith2794]

everyone who voted tory last election should never be allowed to vote again. 100% your fault.

[@howardgayton2127]

I'm impatient for more names. MORE NAMES!

[@Clubberdude-sp1gw]

@11:50. There is a statute in UK law that describes the tory betting scandal. For me if I did this, I would expect a lifelong criminal record and a substantial prison sentence. Guess what the crime is... Fraud. If these MP's do not get convicted will they expunge the convictions and release every person convicted of fraud from prison? Thought not, but hey, the tories love double standards. Fairness is an alien concept to tories. Final post, sorry about multiple posting. Lots to cover here. Good news though, 11 days until system purge. Lets hope it is permanent.

[@janpetersen7440]

Personal matters are always good in politics. They can divert attention from what is really at stake - politics.

[@BenRobinson1974]

Nothing shocking about any of this.

[@jsd8981]

Take it your a tory then !!!...😂

[@lizdocherty3067]

Totally agree it's more shocking if we have a day without a new story of Tory corruption. How bad is that this is what we expect from the Tory party.

[@danthsmith]

No type of campaign we do the toys any favours. We hate them so does everyone else because they’ve wrecked the country

[@yunusshafi4859]

Gid rid of this corrupt party.and bloody Sunsk too. Send him back into oblivion

[@tonywilkinson9237]

The simplest way to control the public is by putting fear into us?😎

[@kiriakoz]

Who cares if Tories are furious? This shows poor judgement if people close to Sunak are untrustworthy.

[@jsd8981]

So true, said it before and I say it again the Cons / Tory Party are a liability...

[@Woke_White_Woman]

Blank Cheque?! No one under 40 knows what a Cheque is!! 😁😆😁😆

[@lordcustard-smythe-smith9153]

Just shows the utter contempt the Tories have for ordinary people. I suspect that the overriding vote in this election will be to obliterate the arrogant Tories, and a lot of tactical voting will make the result even worse for them than the polls suggest. Their campaign has been a complete shambles, and it not surprising that the country is also in a mess.

[@doubledigital_]

imagine , nice sunny weather.. kinda and no more effing tories Brilliant!

[@billy4072]

My thoughts entirely

[@davidfenton4387]

It's just one thing after another for Sunaks disastrous Cons, you couldn't make this up, hilarious. It certainly beggers belief as to why anyone would vote for such catastrophic failure.

[@searchingfortruth4783]

Tories need to lose, so information on the effects of the jibber Jabber can come out. It’s the next blood/flid scandal.

[@standurham2525]

A recent surge in betting exposures = another diversion?

[@alanfrost4661]

Come on people they have got to get every last penny before they are outed for decades 😂😂

[@ColinGreen-pi7kj]

I bet nothing will come of this !

[@winnywin]

I'll give you 3 to 1 that heads will roll!

[@jsd8981]

No doupt...

[@stoobydootoo4098]

I'll report you to the Commission!😅

[@winnywin]

@@stoobydootoo4098 I bet you don't! :)

[@stoobydootoo4098]

@@winnywin What are the chances of THAT?😄

[@stevemarks9360]

Michael Gove is wrong, the gamblers didn't gain an advantage, they attempted to defraud the betting company.

[@peterthomas4533]

Think the times are trying to help the Tories as much as possible , but even they are struggling

[@domm1341]

6wks is far too long! 3wks would be better.

[@heliotropezzz333]

Allow time for all the scandals emerge.

[@terrymann1341]

Let's face it, he lost the election as he trudged his way back into No 10 out of the pouring rain, he looked defeated, it might as well have been a resignation speech..

[@clearspira]

Would you still be saying that if your favourite was losing?

[@VinceLammas]

While the longer campaign is providing more time for slip-ups, we should remember that only we political geeks are paying attention for the duration of any campaign.

[@mrsillywalk]

I bet that 28 to 30 of them placed bets.

[@Joe-og6br]

This election is dragging. 6 weeks is ridiculous.

[@clearspira]

It is very short by the standards of many countries.

[@anonUK]

11 days left now...

[@parallaxview6770]

Bet Sunak gave them the go ahead or maybe he had a bet as well

[@kristoffarrell6899]

Yep this campaign is too long. It's time to vote now, rest is just time watching for what is next Tory and Fraage coxk-up

[@philradbourne]

Corruptiongate.

[@davidbyster9249]

Understatement of the year, ' very bad for The Tories'.

[@monkeymanbob]

If Gullis isn't one of them I'd be mighty surprised.

[@PippaTeo]

Can confirm 100% word was out before the election was announced to the public. As I witnessed first-hand at the UKREIIF event in Leeds where I was working at the time.

[@VaucluseVanguard]

The election has been more about polls than policy because there is little policy difference between the parties, everyone knows this, and because this is the ‘get the Tories out’ election.

[@jackspring7709]

Lol, they were caught off guard so quickly they never thought to blame the Russians.

[@GeoffV-k1h]

Sunday Times reports that a top Tory (who?) has placed dozens of bets on the GE- intending to make a decent amount of cash....

[@bobsmith2794]

sunaks had a flutter . he can't help the temptation

[@fang_xianfu]

People who say a Fixed Term Parliament Act is a good idea are hopelessly naive goven what we saw in 2019. With fixed terms and a requirement for Parliament to vote on an early election, you can get a degenerate situation where there is no majority for the government's business, but also no majority for an election, and the government is completely deadlocked. This happened in 2019, so it's not a myth or an unlikely scenario. It's the same reason there are government shutdowns regularly in thr USA, because there is no majority for a budget bill but also they can't call early elections. We had Parliaments with capped terms. It used to be 7 years, now it's 5. 7 is probably better.

[@andrewworthy4931]

Betting allegations? Check out the insider trading on Brexit.

[@davidpearn5925]

Perfect journalists 'interviewing' perfect journalists is about as depressing a waste of time as is imaginable.

[@colinmathie2710]

Not getting the umbrella was first 😂

[@hypsyzygy506]

The fact of the election, and the length of the campaign, had been decided before the announcement in the rain 🎵🎶

[@johngibson4341]

Congratulations to everyone for not mentioning uknowwho and the party in 2nd placein many polls.

[@Nice0n3]

Most polls put Sunak and the Tories in 2nd place... Both got mentioned...

[@alanpage3973]

The tories will be the opposition

[@themediaman100]

Why is it a Sunak problem? The facts are that people around him have listened to private conversations and tried to use that information to make money out of it. There is nothing worse than being placed in a position of trust then later being caught stealing from the till.

[@xinma6034]

Bet on red

[@justblairthompson]

Why are the staff being treated different?.. they are plebs.

[@TGNWR98UD]

Corrupt Corrupt Corrupt. VOTE REFORM.

[@hsdsaunders]

Vote for reform to support Lord haw haws support for putin

[@TGNWR98UD]

@@hsdsaunders Juvenile response. Read the facts

[@hsdsaunders]

@@TGNWR98UD I don't need to read anything. I witnessed Farage excuse Russia's brutality on NATO expanding. He's an appeaser and a coward as well as a conman.

[@alanpage3973]

​@@TGNWR98UDfarage doesn't do facts

[@peacefulpleb]

Leave the MP candidates in play, I am sure the electorate will judge accordingly on the gambling fraud allegations.

[@ruthguthrie1099]

Lol. Why is she surprised that polls for Labour is low in Scotland? Point me to her rock please. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@garrywatters1140]

Exactly. At least the Jocks understand what Labour are really like.

[@manniking233]

So SNP are still popular in Scotland after being a total disaster in the last two years? Are you kidding me? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Scotland might as well fight for an independence referendum, then, and give Scots what they want, since they hate engaging with English politics completely...

[@JupiterThunder]

As Farage said, the Tories are stealing the lightbulbs and toilet paper on the way out.

[@silentwitness247]

These individuals will apologise but they are only sorry because they have been caught. Sack them. Simple

[@oldskoolmusicnostalgia]

If there's a human vice, count on it to be present somewhere in the ranks of the Conservative Party.

[@Dilbert-o5k]

How come we were told that the mps didnt know anything about the election, but so many were down the beting shop?

[@xavierhucklenbruch1798]

Der Untergang.......

[@susannamarker2582]

If the communist Starmer gets in, yes.

[@markmaher4548]

​@@susannamarker2582Starmer? A communist? According to some on the left he's not even a socialist! Though big business do seem to love his plans for growth as opposed to Rishi Sunak's so called plan & Farage's utter fantasy economics.

[@markmaher4548]

​@@susannamarker2582Starmer! A communist? Don't think so, most on the left doubt he's even a social democrat let alone an actual socialist.

[@susannamarker2582]

@@markmaher4548 Like Blair, Starmer is very good at selling himself as a harmless moderate socialist. He is anything but. At the end of the 1980s, Starmer joined the Haldane Society of lawyers, when everyone knew it was a cover organisation for the british communist party, the old CP GB. It is just unpatriotic to vote for communists. Dangerous, too.

[@snotwurfit]

I'm actually loving the fact it's a long campaign. Because with every day that passes, the Tories are putting their foot in it again and scoring more own goals. I'm enjoying it so much.

[@bobalopadus8901]

"These polls of tens of thousands can get it wrong, but MY FEELINGS will surely be right" I've watched people clinging to relevance as the world comes up with methods to make them obsolete in past jobs, and this is what it always sounds like...

[@jonrotten31]

Nigel Farage for PM. Simple as

[@monkeyboy8424]

It's my experience that Rishi Sunak is a liar and cannot be trusted about; "Government integrity, professionalism and accountability at every level", 25/10/22 outside number 10.

[@xanthias2001]

The Government managed to flush Integrity and Professionalism comprehensively down the pan. But I think they’re about to deliver Accountability in spades…

[@connclissmann6514]

For all the complaint in this video, it still filled 17 minutes of time at a modest cost to the broadcaster, in the summer silly season. Times Radio must be delighted.

[@davidopsina3871]

When Sunak and his corrupt wife are chased away he can return to selling samoosas.

[@AmyAmy-ob7vi]

Piers morgan made a £1000 bet with sunak and won so the pm was betting on his policy's before this scandel leading by example i would say the flights never left

[@Layla-mt9pc]

I hope these MPs are over 18😂😂😂

[@christinehill8611]

I have lost the will to live with all these lies from politicians! If the labour and conservatories win the election, I will never vote again!

[@jackn4853]

They both can't win. So, if you don't want Cons or Lab to win who do you want? Go on let me guess Reform? Just use a little critical thinking, Reform may get a handful of seats, enough to form a majority in a five a side team.

[@designslave38]

I just looked up ´catastrophically boring’ and found this show.

[@chris-vn6sw]

Sunak ! A man that broke the law twice that we know about 🍋

[@agnestekyi6078]

Sunak didn’t need to call this election. This party is not popular.

[@krisinsaigon]

“Which is Rishi Sunak’s partygate…” Let us not forget as well that Partygate was also Rishi Sunak’s Partygate, given that he too was fined by the police for breaking the law then

[@Woofersgalore]

If we think this is a long campaign…..thank god we aren’t in America!!!!!

[@shauneden4229]

Have they placed any bets on a Tory win?

[@ruthguthrie1099]

Roll on Scottish independence 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@elainethomson5826]

I personally can wait for election night I am going to sit up all night with a bottle of fizz cheering on the Tory down fall 🎉😂

[@twisteddancer7773]

Wonder if Sunak put a bet on with Starmer on who would smear Farage the most

[@gerardmackay8909]

Oh Farage smears himself he needs no assistance

[@markmaher4548]

Farage is doing a good enough job of smearing himself without any help from anyone else!

[@rustynail1194]

No one needs to smear him, he does it to himself.

[@gerardmackay8909]

@@rustynail1194 funny that’s exactly what I wrote but it got deleted.

[@rustynail1194]

@@gerardmackay8909 lots of my posts get deleted too

[@deanjordan2664]

Vote reform enough is enough of this uniparty Labour are imploding and losing the muslim vote and reform are taking votes from all parties. Nigel won all debates hands down

[@johnB11ify]

Look you all have missed the point, Sunak has known he was always going to lose this so he just wants to get back to America before the winter. That's why he called it early

[@rogerhudson9732]

Perhaps there is someone involved who is in a winnable seat so that is why he can't disown the current two who were in unwinable seats.

[@cybergornstartrooper2157]

I agree we should have fixed term parliaments. But Brexit exploded British politics. Putting up with the chaos of May for 5 years would have been disastrous

[@yuna-1971]

HOW PATHETIC THE POOR OLD TORY TIMES IS..😂😂😂 DESPERATELY TRYING TO FIND A NARRATIVE THAT SUNAK CAN WIN😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂