One of Rishi Sunak’s closest parliamentary aides has said he made a “huge error of judgment” by betting on the date of the General Election just days before the Prime Minister called it. Liberal Democrats leader Sir Ed Davey said: “If someone knows the outcome of something, it seems to me morally questionable for them to put a bet on it if they know the result of that outcome.” Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00No I don't actually tend to bet to be honest and I tend to think that I'll
00:05leave that to others. I don't know the details of the case but if someone knows
00:09the outcome of something it seems to me morally questionable for them to put a bet
00:14on it if they know the result of that outcome.
00:17Would you suspect that he did?
00:19I don't know. There are reports that it looks like he did and the relevant authorities are going to look into it quite rightly.