Second Tory candidate faces investigation over bet on election date

The Gambling Commission is looking into a second Conservative candidate over a bet on the timing of the General Election.

Laura Saunders, the party’s candidate in Bristol North West, joins former Rishi Sunak aide Craig Williams, who is standing in Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr.

BBC News also reported that a police officer on the PM’s close protection team was arrested for allegedly placing a bet on when the election would be held.

Meanwhile, the Conservative Party is set to win the lowest number of seats at a General Election since it was founded in 1834, a new poll has found.

A YouGov MRP poll, which uses voter attributes to predict how every constituency in the UK will act on July 4, predicts a 425-seat landslide for Labour.

‘s party, meanwhile, would lose 264 seats to leave them with just 108 MPs.

It comes after another poll by Savanta and Electoral Calculus suggested the Tories could end up with only 53 MPs, with Sunak becoming the first prime minister to lose his seat.

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is in North Yorkshire today talking about housing, while Ed Davey of the Lib Dems visits Sheffield.

Sunak, Starmer and Davey will join Scottish first minister and SNP leader John Swinney on the Question Time Leaders’ Special, which is due to air on BBC One at 8pm tonight.