Rishi Sunak said it was “very disappointing” that one of his closest parliamentary aides had placed a bet on the date of the General Election just days before the prime minister called it. Craig Williams, who served as Mr Sunak’s parliamentary private secretary and is the Conservative candidate for Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr, has apologised but refused to say whether he placed the bet on the basis of insider information. 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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00:00Well it's very disappointing news and you would have seen Craig Williams say that it was a huge
00:04error of judgment. Now there's an independent inquiry that is ongoing which is necessarily
00:10confidential as well as independent and you'll appreciate that given that
00:15it wouldn't be appropriate for me to comment while that's ongoing.