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Ex-Tory MP among 15 charged with placing bets on timing of General Election
A sign for a polling station at Magdalen Hill Cemetery near Winchester, Hampshire, July 4, 2024

FORMER Tory MP Craig Williams was among 15 people charged today in connection to bets placed on the timing of the general election last May.

Russell George, the Tory Senedd member for Montgomeryshire, and Nick Mason, a former chief data officer for the party, are also facing charges.

Welsh Conservatives leader Darren Millar said he had suspended Mr George from the Welsh Conservative Group in the Senedd.

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