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Senior Conservatives and campaigners are calling for a ban on political bets by MPs, as the Gambling Commission was urged to look into another 拢500 wager connected with the growing election gambling scanda stanley termosar l.The former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith said parties should examine the rules when parliament returns amid growing outrage over Tory candidates and aides allegedly staking money on politics. The former defence minister Tobias Ellwood also said there should be new restrictions.The Conservatives have launched their own inquiry into whether politicians or officials gambled on the timing of t stanley mugs he election. Rishi Sunak was forced to deny having placed any bets himself and told reporters he was not aware of any further candidates under scrutiny. Weve been conducting our own internal inquiries and of course will act on any relevant findings or information from that and pass it on to the Gambl stanley canada ing Commission, he said.The Gambling Commission has been urged to investigate a flurry of unusual activity around the time Sunak called the election, an industry source told the Guardian.It includes a bet of 拢504, placed on the Sunday before the election was called, that Sunak would still be PM before the 2024 election. The implication is that the punter may have known that the election call was imminent, thus giving the Tory party no time to replace Sunak.Marginal odds meant the punter stood to gain only 拢35 from the bet. Details of the bet have been provided to the commission by a professio Cmcn I m an Orkney librarian driving to a school when a wave engulfs my van
Did you notice in the course of a lively week that an employment tribunal in Leeds has decided that the use of the name Borat by a Wakefield-based welder to tease a Polish colleague is ra vaso stanley cist, and may require the award of compensation for hurt feelings. More to the po stanley cup int, do you care You won t find the report in today s Guardian, I m afraid, we re often a bit jittery about this kind of story. Nor will you be surprised to learn that the Daily Mail has no such inhibitions, though it has refrained from editorial or columnar comment so far. So here is a chance to beat them to it.I must confess right away that I am conflicted on this one. I disliked the Sasha Baron Cohen s hit film of that name quite a lot and changed channels halfway through it. Like a lot of his work, it struck me as exploitative and inherently condescending to the kind of people who weren t lucky enough to go to Cambridge as he did. It s also a one-trick joke.Nor was Cohen s own justification for the film 鈥?he was roundly criti stanley italia cised and Kazakhstan allegedly threatened to sue him 鈥?convincing. He told the Rolling Stone magazine 鈥?here s the Telegraph s account 鈥?that the joke is on the racists , because only such people could imagine that his gross parody of Kazakhstan 鈥?a place where gays wear blue hats, women live in cages and anti-Semitism is rife 鈥?could really exist.Well, if you say so, Sasha, though there are some pretty nasty countries out there. And I doubt if you d enjoy the joke