Police to investigate bets in UK election scandal as leaders clash over migrants
‘Small number’ of wagers on date of vote being probed
The Metropolitan Police said they would investigate a “small number” of bets made on the timing of the UK general election, raising the stakes in a scandal that has dogged prime minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives in the run-up to next week’s vote.
The “majority of cases” being probed are suspected breaches of provisions of the UK’s Gambling Act which outlaw cheating, the Met said in a statement published on its website yesterday.
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