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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