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Vincent McAviney: UK Correspondent on the betting scandal facing the Tories · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: We go into mecavenyent, very good morning to you.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning.
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  Speaker 1: In a campaign where farage has also stolen the headlines
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  Speaker 1: and the polls are sort of a constant debating point.
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  Speaker 1: Just what we needed was a good old, bitting scandal,
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  Speaker 1: wasn't it. Who could have seen this coming?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean you say a good old scandal. We
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  Speaker 2: haven't had a scandal like this before, and it keeps
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  Speaker 2: rumbling on. So what this is is allegedly people that
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  Speaker 2: had early knowledge of the surprise election date. Rishi Sunac
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  Speaker 2: called it three weeks ago. It's in two weeks time,
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  Speaker 2: on the on the fourth of July. And first, a
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  Speaker 2: few weeks ago we had an MP who was an
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  Speaker 2: advisor to Richie Sunac. He was accused of having placed
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  Speaker 2: a one hundred pound bet and was under investigation by
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  Speaker 2: the UK's Gambling Commission. Then yesterday one of Rishi Sunac's
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  Speaker 2: close protection police officers was arrested over alleged bets about
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  Speaker 2: the timing of the election. And then today a Conservative
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  Speaker 2: Party candidate, Laura Saunders has it's been announced that she
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  Speaker 2: is being investigated for doing the same. And her husband
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  Speaker 2: is the Conservative Party's director of campaign. So someone who
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  Speaker 2: would absolutely have likely known the date of that election
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  Speaker 2: early and they're being investigated, so he is stepped back
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  Speaker 2: from that role temporarily. So it is a huge scandal
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  Speaker 2: here that these people seem to have really decided to
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  Speaker 2: use what they know, the insider information they have, and
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  Speaker 2: infringe the sort of UK's betting laws to place these
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  Speaker 2: bets watching.
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  Speaker 1: Eldister Campbell has been about the place saying he doesn't
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  Speaker 1: believe the polls at the moment. That's something really awry
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  Speaker 1: going on. But we're now talking about aren't we rischie
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  Speaker 1: Sonnik potentially losing his seat and no one as Prime
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  Speaker 1: minister has ever lost their seat, have they?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. It would be remarkable, an unprecedented loss
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  Speaker 2: for Rishie Sounak if he lost the seat. He is
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  Speaker 2: currently campaigning in some very un usual seats, seats where
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  Speaker 2: they've got more than a twenty thousand or places he'd
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  Speaker 2: never be or a prime minister in office which should
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  Speaker 2: never be campaigning, has never had to campaign before. But
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  Speaker 2: they're so worried. I mean, they're talking about half of
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  Speaker 2: the cabinet going here on the night of the election,
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  Speaker 2: will be covering it from the Chancellor's constituency Jeremy Hunt.
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  Speaker 2: He's been an MP since two thousand and five. He's
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  Speaker 2: been Chancellor, Foreign Secretary, Health Secretary, big Jobs. He is
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  Speaker 2: expected to lose his seat at the moment. Several other
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  Speaker 2: very senior members of the government, so it really could
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  Speaker 2: be an unprecedented night for the Conservative Party. Farishi Sunak Well, hey,
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  Speaker 2: it might be what he wants because after such a
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  Speaker 2: dreadful loss as we're expecting, he probably doesn't want to
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  Speaker 2: stick around much longer. Lots of rumors that he wants
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  Speaker 2: to leave and move to California.
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  Speaker 1: And give us thee Ian mckill an update because it
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  Speaker 1: seemed bad that it wasn't as bad and we were
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  Speaker 1: expecting the returner. Now he's not returning.
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  Speaker 2: Yasaran McKellen is currently performing in the West End in
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  Speaker 2: a play called Player Kings Now. He fell from the
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  Speaker 2: stage a few nights ago. He had to have medical attention.
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  Speaker 2: He's had physiotherapy and scans, but they've come out with
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  Speaker 2: a statement to say that he's doing well. He's recovering.
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  Speaker 2: He won't be able to fill the remaining performances at
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  Speaker 2: the nol Cower Theater here in London's West End, but
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  Speaker 2: the play is transferring to Bristol next month and it's
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  Speaker 2: hope that he'll be able to take part in that.
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  Speaker 2: So some good news that he's getting better. He is,
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  Speaker 2: of course eighty five. It is incredible that he still
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  Speaker 2: does these huge productions and that's just hope he gets
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  Speaker 2: better quickly.
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  Speaker 1: You bit, Vincent, have a good weekend catch up, so
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  Speaker 1: appreciate it very much. Vincent mcavinnie out of Britain.
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