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Former Conservative Party campaigning director Anthony Lee used inside information from a private meeting called by Rishi Sunak to place bets on the date of the 2024 general election, Southwark Crown Court has heard.

Lee and his wife, Laura Lee, placed more than £2,000 in bets between March 10 and May 21, with potential winnings exceeding £23,000, according to prosecutors. Both admitted gambling-related cheating offences.

Prosecutor Zoe Johnson KC told the court that Lee obtained information identifying July 4 as the working election date and passed it to his wife so they could profit from it. She argued that the betting coincided with a private meeting at Downing Street on March 10, when Sunak and a small group of senior Conservative figures discussed possible election dates.

Those attending included election strategist Isaac Levido and Craig Williams, who was Sunak’s parliamentary private secretary at the time. The court heard that Sunak had circulated a document outlining three p

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