hello I'm Sophie rayworth welcome to
your election headlines with one story
dominating the BBC has learned that the
conservatives director of campaigning is
being looked into over allegations about
betting on the date of the general
election Tony Lee is married to a Tor
candidate Laura Saunders who is also the
subject of inquiries by the gambling
commission here's the political reaction
it's quite properly uh being
investigated now uh how does it look
well as I say uh you and others looking
at this will I I'm sure be doing much
more than just raising an eyebrow if it
was one of my candidates they'd be gone
and their feet would not have touched
the floor there's a wider Point here
that you touch on which is we've now had
14 years of chaos of division of
politics being about self- entitlement
and politics needs to be about service
about public
service we think there should be a
cabinet office uh inquiry I think the
gambling commission will rightly look at
this um and I hope they come down heavy
on those
people time now for two Manifesto
launches first the Scottish greens
they're pledging to introduce a wealth
tax on the richest people in the UK an
end to oil and gas companies being able
to advertise and a stop on all subsidies
for fossil fuels the Cross Community
Alliance party launched its Manifesto in
Belfast it's contesting all 18 seats in
Northern Ireland Alliance is pushing for
reform of the Devol government including
changing how the assembly votes on
contentious issues and if you want to
see how the parties are fairing in the
polls we have a dedicated poll tracker
on our website head to
bbc.co.uk trer for all you need to know
those are your election headlines for
Thursday June the 20th
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