{"id":72109,"date":"2024-06-13T12:39:20","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T12:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/13\/election-bet-huge-error-tory-candidate-admits\/"},"modified":"2024-06-13T12:39:20","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T12:39:20","slug":"election-bet-huge-error-tory-candidate-admits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/13\/election-bet-huge-error-tory-candidate-admits\/","title":{"rendered":"Election bet &#8216;huge error&#8217;, Tory candidate admits"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/a589\/live\/04ef1450-297e-11ef-9749-cd6cde939cc7.jpg?fit=1024,576&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Election bet &#8216;huge error&#8217;, Tory candidate admits\" title=\"Election bet &#8216;huge error&#8217;, Tory candidate admits\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">A Conservative election candidate was repeatedly asked if he had inside information when he placed a bet on the date of the general election. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Craig Williams, an aide to the prime minister in the last parliament told BBC reporter Joe Pike he had &#8220;clearly made a huge error of judgement&#8221;, but would not be adding to his previous statement that the Gambling Commission was investigating because this was &#8220;an independent process&#8221;. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The Guardian has claimed that Mr Williams placed a \u00a3100 bet on a July election three days before the PM announced it would take place on 4 July. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The other candidates standing in Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr are Jeremy Brignell-Thorp, Green Party; Oliver Lewis, Reform UK; Glyn Preston, Liberal Democrat; Elwyn Vaughan, Plaid Cymru; Steve Witherden, Labour<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/c977my455y3o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Conservative election candidate was repeatedly asked if he had inside information when he placed a bet on the date of the general election. Craig Williams, an aide to the prime minister in the last parliament told BBC reporter Joe Pike he had &#8220;clearly made a huge error of judgement&#8221;, but would not be adding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/a589\/live\/04ef1450-297e-11ef-9749-cd6cde939cc7.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[603],"tags":[614,6657,2309,50,787,4346,492],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72111,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72109\/revisions\/72111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}