{"id":74420,"date":"2025-04-14T13:31:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T13:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=74420"},"modified":"2025-04-14T13:31:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T13:31:47","slug":"craig-williams-former-tory-mp-among-15-charged-over-general-election-betting-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/04\/14\/craig-williams-former-tory-mp-among-15-charged-over-general-election-betting-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Craig Williams: Former Tory MP among 15 charged over general election betting scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1wyG8M.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6&amp;x=1125&amp;y=473&amp;s=3015&amp;d=1275\" alt=\"Rishi Sunak\u2019s election campaign was beset by allegations over the betting scandal (PA)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A former Tory MP and aide to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/rishi-sunak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Rishi Sunak<\/a>\u00a0is among 15 people charged with offences relating to bets placed on the timing of the 2024\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/general-election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">general election<\/a>, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/gambling-commission\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Gambling Commission<\/a> has announced.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/ex-tory-mp-and-sunak-aide-among-15-charged-over-general-election-betting-scandal\/ar-AA1CSIhK?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=027cdf4149ee4b18b34b58b3c7909eb1&amp;ei=37\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A former Tory MP and aide to\u00a0Rishi Sunak\u00a0is among 15 people charged with offences relating to bets placed on the timing of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-74420","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Craig-William.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74422,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74420\/revisions\/74422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}