Worst Conservative Election Campaign Ever Gets Even Worse
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak took a big gamble calling the British election early. Now his odds for winning are getting even longer thanks to a betting scandal that just cost him the guy running the entire campaign.
One of the Conservative Party candidates running for a parliamentary seat is being probed by the U.K.’s gambling regulator over allegedly using inside information to place a bet on the timing of the upcoming general election, the BBC reported Thursday.
Adding intrigue to the report is the fact that the candidate in question is married to the Tories’ director of campaigns—who is also now reportedly being looked into by the regulator. That shock revelation means the Conservatives’ director of campaigning has taken a leave of absence with just two weeks left of the campaign, which was already going absolutely terribly.