Tories suspend candidates in betting storm
RISHI SUNAK finally acted over the Tory gambling scandal today by suspending the two Conservative candidates who are being probed for illegal betting.
The party said “it would no longer support” Craig Williams in Montgomeryshire and Laura Saunders in Bristol North-West after days of debilitating controversy over the issue.
Previously the Prime Minister had used the fact that the Gambling Commission was investigating the allegations as an excuse for political passivity.
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