Growing ‘gamble-gate’ threatens to bury Rishi Sunak
A fourth Tory staffer is being probed for betting on the timing of the election, in a scandal that has engulfed the PM’s party just two weeks from polling day.
London | Rishi Sunak’s chances of avoiding a landslide defeat in the UK general election have dwindled further as his governing Conservative Party struggled to contain revelations that several of the prime minister’s close aides placed bets on the date of the vote.
A report in the Sunday Times that a senior Conservative official made dozens of bets with bookmakers that Sunak would call a July election means four prominent Tories have now been accused of trying to profit by gambling on its timing.
