{"id":72356,"date":"2024-06-13T19:12:07","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T19:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/13\/sunak-on-tory-candidates-election-bet-very-disappointing\/"},"modified":"2024-06-13T19:12:07","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T19:12:07","slug":"sunak-on-tory-candidates-election-bet-very-disappointing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/13\/sunak-on-tory-candidates-election-bet-very-disappointing\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunak on Tory candidate&#8217;s election bet: Very disappointing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/52f9\/live\/f69ae130-29a6-11ef-9749-cd6cde939cc7.jpg?fit=1024,576&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Sunak on Tory candidate&#8217;s election bet: Very disappointing\" title=\"Sunak on Tory candidate&#8217;s election bet: Very disappointing\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The prime minister said three times it would not be right for him to comment on the investigation into his former parliamentary aide, Craig Williams. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Mr Williams, a Conservative candidate in the general election, has admitted a &#8220;huge error of judgement&#8221; in placing a bet on the date of the general election.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Speaking from the G7 summit in Italy, Rishi Sunak said it was \u201cvery disappointing news\u201d. But asked whether Mr Williams had known the 4 July date when he placed his wager, the PM repeatedly declined to say any more while the Gambling Commission held an \u201cindependent&#8221; and &#8220;confidential&#8221; inquiry. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The other candidates standing in Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr are: <!-- --><\/p>\n<ul class=\"sc-5c9c90b0-0 cnfHHs\">\n<li class=\"sc-8d73edac-0 ezcCTE\">Jeremy Brignell-Thorp, Green Party <!-- --><\/li>\n<li class=\"sc-8d73edac-0 ezcCTE\">Oliver Lewis, Reform UK <!-- --><\/li>\n<li class=\"sc-8d73edac-0 ezcCTE\">Glyn Preston, Liberal Democrat <!-- --><\/li>\n<li class=\"sc-8d73edac-0 ezcCTE\">Elwyn Vaughan, Plaid Cymru <!-- --><\/li>\n<li class=\"sc-8d73edac-0 ezcCTE\">Steve Witherden, Labour.<!-- --><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/cevv7d2jv7no\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prime minister said three times it would not be right for him to comment on the investigation into his former parliamentary aide, Craig Williams. Mr Williams, a Conservative candidate in the general election, has admitted a &#8220;huge error of judgement&#8221; in placing a bet on the date of the general election. Speaking from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72357,"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\/52f9\/live\/f69ae130-29a6-11ef-9749-cd6cde939cc7.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[603],"tags":[6657,3259,22979,50,1031,492],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72356"}],"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=72356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72358,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72356\/revisions\/72358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}