Sunak under pressure for ‘failing to react’ to election betting scandal | Steven Swinford
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- “It is pretty extraordinary that it took Rishi Sunak 13 days to suspend Tory candidates who place bets on the date of the election.”
Rishi Sunak’s judgement is being questioned as it seems he “failed to react” to the election betting scandal more broadly, says The Times’s Steven Swinford.
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Bad Enoch is just a nasty, angry person. Her tetchy is on another level to Sunak. Kemi has to grow up before she has the temperament to be successful in politics. At the moment her surprising ascent will be followed by an even faster crash and burn.
Completely agree
Truss Mk2.
She could be very bad for what remains of the Tory Party. But she's spotted an issue which, in the future, could easily turn into a car crash for Labour, and she's setting herself up on the Moral High Ground to take advantage if that happens.
Labour needs to take women's sex based rights seriously. Tennant needs to stick to mouthing other people's lines.
VOTE THEM OUT
UK is a pale and sorry shadow of what it used to be.
Ethics: Politicians must not bet on anything they legislate on - business, economics, and particularly politics.
For all of you complaining about your corruption in the UK, the USA Supreme Court just ruled that 40-years of laws against officials accepting money & gifts AFTER awarding lucrative contracts are now ILLEGAL. That means if any Tory moves to the USA it is now perfectly legal for a UK company to give them £100,000 as a thank-you for giving them a £10,00,000 PPE contract. Don’t you just love crony capitalism?
Politicians shouldn't be betting on issues relating to our lives full stop.
Im eight days time these clowns are gone. They've improved nothing and wrecked much.
Vote out to help out
Sunak is doing his best and it shows.
14 years of inaction and incompetence revealed in 14 days of inaction and incompetence
From Sky News: Badenoch said she would “not be silenced” by the “rich, left, white, celebrity”.
Why wasn’t her inappropriate/racist comment reported here?
I wonder what made her turn her comment racist. What does Tenant being white have to do with a gender/sex topic?
Perhaps she is racist?
He is incapable of any judgement.
Vote Red or Blue the dinosaur parties will gamble your future away.
He starting to fold , he will walk away a free man ,probably have his picture hanging in no 10 , in the toilet
Watch out for sewage leaks then
Toilet seat 🤔
Say it don’t spray it 😮
He's done with all MPs and candidates (thus the snap call) .. in fact, he's cursing the 100 MPs who prevented a party vote. He just wants out, damn the casualties.
How do the public know he didn't call the 'snap election' when he did because he was 'advised' on a 'more preferable date', i.e., one which suited 'certain interests' far better??? We all know when you ask the CONS for their perspective, they LIE like it's in their nature...For example, if a bookmaker had significant liabilities resting on a certain event occurring, but was able to 'influence' another outcome which significantly reduced such liabilities, wouldn't it be in that bookies interests to get on the blower to 'somebody'??? Jus wondered...
Everyone is choosing to forget that it was only a few weeks ago that Sunak was on TV making bets on politics with Piers Morgan
For all of you complaining about your corruption in the UK, the USA Supreme Court just ruled that 40-years of laws against officials accepting money & gifts AFTER awarding lucrative contracts are now ILLEGAL. That means if any Tory moves to the USA it is now perfectly legal for a UK company to give them £100,000 as a thank-you for giving them a £10,00,000 PPE contract. Don’t you just love crony capitalism?
@gregorybiestek3431 Yes, the UK is less corrupt than the most corrupt country on earth.
By all means, scrutinize the policies of a Labour government. I would argue, though, that you have a monumental amount of scrutinizing to do with respect to the Conservative governments over the past fourteen years. I still haven't recovered from the interview you did yesterday with yet another former Conservative strategist, who was whining about the bad hand that Liz Truss had been dealt by Boris Johnson and about the even worse hand that Rishi Sunak was eventually dealt by Liz Truss. THEY WERE ALL TORIES, FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE!
Politicians shouldn't bet on ANYTHING they have a chance of influencing. That's insider-trading or could be seen as such.
The problem is that it just shows they (or some) think they are above the rules that they set for us plebs. It's either corrupt or it shows a total lack of judgement.
If a Politician wants a flutter, there are a million things outside of Politics, to bet on.
Steven Swinford the Times Political Editor criticising the Tories! Whatever next? I buy “the Times” and have done for 20 years, but this bloke is the most biased pro Tory and anti Labour commentator there is. He has been absolutely shocking over last 3 months on a daily basis.
Rishi Sunak's inability to respond to anything with promptitude demonstrates what would happen if this country were hit by a really serious crisis, like a tsunami or a shooting match...
I wonder who the Times will come
out for and endorse before polling day ? Bets ladies and gentlemen please.
The only way to go is vote on who you think who has been the less corrupt,,at least amongst the two major party's ...
Sunak kept saying that it would be wrong to suspend the candidates before the Gambling Commission made their decision.
So Sunak has done a wrong?
I imagine he waited to see what the polls said about the issue.
4:57 Look I bet this comment won't get pinned or liked, reply and I'll do absolutely NOTHING.
You lost your bet
He is just so bad at politics and reading the room. Useless is more like it.
I can believe, that. politicians are still saying they should be able to bet on politics but only if they don't have direct knowledge. I used to work for one of the big four accounting firms. When I joined I had to sell all my stock in companies that we audited to the extent where even if I had stock in stock portfolios managed by a fund manager in a wrapper that I had no control over. My wife had to sell hers even though she did not work for the company. This was still true even if I was not working on the accounts of any of these companies. Why ? The thinking was even if I was not directly involved, I may hear a conversation around a water cooler or I may see a document on someone's desk which could. influence my decision to buy or sell stocks and therefore could be seem as insider trading. The same should be true of politicians
For all of you complaining about your corruption in the UK, the USA Supreme Court just ruled that 40-years of laws against officials accepting money & gifts AFTER awarding lucrative contracts are now ILLEGAL. That means if any Tory moves to the USA it is now perfectly legal for a UK company to give them £100,000 as a thank-you for giving them a £10,00,000 PPE contract. Don’t you just love crony capitalism?
What is their to say we all know it was not legal or do they take the public for fools.
I will give you a betting tip the Tories are out no doubt.
These bets are irrelevant. Media fuss for clicks as usual.
What concerns me is anyone in these positions gambles AT ALL! Risky bad behaviour that will carry through to their decision making.
Make corrupt Tories his-Tory
Decisive he has never been...
Rishi “Soon-axed”.
When has the Times Radio been anything other than partisan when it comes to assessing politics?
Instead of acting like a leader he was doing what was best for him and his mates
Failing to do anything sunak.
What they did was illegal, again. It's pathological with them.