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Anthony Lee, former director of campaigning for The Conservatives, and his wife Laura have been given suspended sentences after admitting to placing illegal bets on the date of the 2024 general election using insider information from a private meeting with then-Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. They were set to win over £23,000 if their bets had not been discovered. Lee received a sentence of ten months and two weeks suspended for twelve months, while his wife was sentenced to four months and two weeks suspended for one year.

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Anthony Lee, the Conservatives' former director of campaigning, and his wife Laura Lee received suspended prison sentences after admitting to cheating at gambling by placing bets on the date of the 2024 general election. The couple used "inside information" from a private meeting called by then-Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in March 2024 to bet months before the election date was publicly announced. They stood to win more than £23,000 had their scheme not been uncovered. At Southwark Crown Court on October 20, 2026, Lee was sentenced to 10 months and two weeks' imprisonment suspended for 12 months, while his wife received a four-month sentence also suspended for one year. Additionally, Amy Hind, the wife of former Conservative deputy digital director Anthony Hind, placed bets based on similar inside information she received from her husband or party figures.

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- Published The Conservatives' former director of campaigning and his wife have received suspended prison sentences after they admitted to cheating at gambling by placing bets on the date of the 2024 general election.

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Anthony Lee used "inside information" emerging from a private meeting called by then-Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to bet on the general election date months before it took place, Southwark Crown Court heard. asserted

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Lee and his wife Laura stood to win more than £23,000 had their cheating not been uncovered, the court heard. asserted

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Lee was sentenced to 10 months and two weeks' imprisonment, suspended for 12 months, while his wife was sentenced to four months and two weeks' imprisonment, suspended for a year. asserted

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