{"id":77035,"date":"2024-06-20T08:09:31","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T08:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/20\/tory-candidate-laura-saunders-looked-into-over-election-bet\/"},"modified":"2024-06-20T08:09:32","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T08:09:32","slug":"tory-candidate-laura-saunders-looked-into-over-election-bet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/20\/tory-candidate-laura-saunders-looked-into-over-election-bet\/","title":{"rendered":"Tory candidate Laura Saunders looked into over election bet"},"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\/4166\/live\/67cd34d0-2ed8-11ef-88d9-0bf10c68769b.jpg?fit=1024,576&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Tory candidate Laura Saunders looked into over election bet\" title=\"Tory candidate Laura Saunders looked into over election bet\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">A Conservative candidate being looking into by the Gambling Commission over a bet relating to the timing of the election is married to the party&#8217;s director of campaigning, the BBC can reveal. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Laura Saunders, the party\u2019s candidate in Bristol North West, has worked for the Tories since 2015.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">It is not known when the bet was placed or for how much money.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">She is married to Tony Lee, who is the Conservative Party\u2019s director of campaigning.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Ms Saunders has been approached for comment by the BBC and has not responded. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">A Conservative Party spokesman told the BBC: \u201cWe have been contacted by the Gambling Commission about a small number of individuals. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">&#8220;As the Gambling Commission is an independent body, it wouldn\u2019t be proper to comment further, until any process is concluded.\u201d<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c722014r42xo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Conservative candidate being looking into by the Gambling Commission over a bet relating to the timing of the election is married to the party&#8217;s director of campaigning, the BBC can reveal. Laura Saunders, the party\u2019s candidate in Bristol North West, has worked for the Tories since 2015. It is not known when the bet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77036,"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\/4166\/live\/67cd34d0-2ed8-11ef-88d9-0bf10c68769b.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[603],"tags":[6657,2309,50,4945,11405,69583,492],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77035"}],"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=77035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77037,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77035\/revisions\/77037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}