A senior Tory is facing allegations that he gambled £8,000 that he would lose his seat at the general election.
Sir Philip Davies, the Tory candidate in Shipley, said that he “fully expected to lose” his marginal seat, where he is defending a 6,242 majority.
Davies, who is married to Esther McVey, the “minister for common sense”, told The Sun that it was “nobody’s business” if he placed the wager after the paper first revealed allegations that he bet against himself.
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Labour is on course to take Shipley in West Yorkshire comfortably, according to a YouGov MRP poll last week. Davies denied doing anything illegal and there is no suggestion that he