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PRIME MINISTER Rishi Sunak’s gambling crisis plunged to a fresh low today after another senior Tory official was suspended.
Chief data officer Nick Mason joined campaigns director Tony Lee on leave of absence from the floundering campaign amid claims that they placed bets on the date of the election.
And Home Secretary James Cleverly could only say without certainty that he had “no reason to believe” that cabinet ministers were in on the scam.
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