A key Conservative campaign chief and his wife have been spared jail after admitting to cheating at gambling by betting on the date of the 2024 General Election.
Anthony Lee – the Tories’ former director of campaigning – used ‘inside information’ from a private meeting called by former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to bet on the general election date months before it took place.
Lee, 49, and his wife, parliamentary candidate Laura Lee, 38, pleaded guilty at Southwark Crown Court to placing more than £2,000 worth of bets from March 10 and May 21, 2024, standing to win more than £23,000 had their cheating not been unearthed.
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