The Conservative Party’s former director of campaigning has been spared jail despite admitting he cheated at gambling on the date of the 2024 general election. Last month, Anthony Lee, 49, pleaded guilty to two offences relating to placing bets on the date of the 2024 general election, with his wife Laura Lee, who was a parliamentary candidate at the time, admitting one charge. At Southwark Crown Court on Friday, jurors were told how the ex-senior Tory figure used “inside information” from a private meeting called by then-Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to bet on the general election date months before it took place.The court heard the Lees placed more than £2,000 worth of bets from March 10 and May 21, 2024, and stood to win over...
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