Sunak urged to drop candidates as betting investigation widens
The ongoing fallout from the Conservative Party election betting allegations features on several front pages. The Guardian reports that Rishi Sunak has been urged to drop candidates being investigated, as the Gambling Commission widens its inquiries into the claims.
The paper says senior Tories have called for the candidates and other officials to be suspended pending the outcome, urging the prime minister to “get a grip on the slow drip of revelations”.
‘Tory betting scandal engulfing Westminster’ – Paper Talk
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The lead stories on the front page of the newspaper – and website.
Pressure on Rishi Sunak as election betting scandal grows
- Senior Conservatives were among those calling for candidates and officials to be suspended pending the result of investigations, while the prime minister was urged to get a grip on the drip-drip of revelations. Labour wrote to the head of the Gambling Commission on Sunday evening urging the watchdog to name those it has placed under investigation “in the public interest”, warning that “ongoing speculation … is casting a shadow over the election”. [https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/23/pressure-on-rishi-sunak-as-election-betting-scandal-grows]
Scotland heartbreak as Hungary’s 100th-minute winner knocks them out of Euro 2024
- Scotland needed a win to secure a spot in the knockout phase of a major tournament for the first time, save some form of arithmetic cruelty. Hungary carried faint hopes of progress with a win here. The teams looked destined to play out a mutually unsatisfactory, ragged, scoreless draw until Hungary notched a 100th-minute winner. Put bluntly, neither team deserves a place in the last 16 based on this. [https://www.theguardian.com/football/article/2024/jun/23/scotland-hungary-euro-2024-match-report]
Labour to add dozens of peers to back its policies and improve gender balance
- Labour is to appoint dozens of peers within weeks in an attempt to push through its policies and improve the representation of women in the House of Lords, the Guardian has learned. Senior Labour figures have drawn up a list of peerages to bolster the party benches and help implement its legislative programme if it wins the election on 4 July. The Conservatives have 104 more peers than Labour, while fewer than a third of the 784 members of parliament’s second chamber are women. [https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/23/labour-add-dozens-peers-back-policies-improve-gender-balance]