Tory Welsh Secretary responds to betting scandal

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  • 3 months ago
The Conservative Welsh Secretary David TC Davies has responded to the Tory betting scandal, saying he is "very disappointed". It comes as two Conservative candidates were placed under investigation by the Gambling Commission for allegedly placing a bet on the date of the general election. Report by Kennedyl. 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, obviously, you're referring to the news stories about a couple of people being investigated
00:05for allegedly for gambling.
00:07There's an investigation going on, and I don't want to prejudice that in any way, but clearly,
00:11if anyone's broken the rules, they should be thrown out of the party.
00:14The law is very clear about about gambling with insider knowledge, but I have no knowledge
00:19of this myself.
00:20I can assure you, because I've been asked, have I gambled on anything?
00:23No, I haven't.
00:24I haven't done for years, in fact, and certainly not over this election.
00:28And, you know, I'm very disappointed.

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