Alex Cole-Hamilton said he is merely ‘showing confidence in his friends’.
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton has placed “flutters” on the outcome of races in the General Election, but said it is merely “showing confidence in his friends”.
Scottish Lib Dem leader Alex Cole-Hamilton stopped off at Edinburgh Zoo while on the General Election campaign trail He said: “Like a lot of people who have an intense interest in politics, I have been known to have a flutter and I have put a very small number of bets on certain outcomes of races across the British isles at this election.“I’m just backing my friends who are working hard and deserve to win.
“I think that when you can’t predict an election, nobody can predict an election unless you’re in North Korea or Russia, then I’m not sure where the advantage is.” With the Labour candidate having bet against himself, Mr Sarwar said he is not aware of any similar behaviour by the party’s Scottish candidates.Speaking on BBC Radio Scotland’s Good Morning Scotland programme, Mr Sarwar said: “That is a participant in an individual contest who made a bet on that individual contest, which is not acceptable, which is why he was stripped of his candidacy and why any donations he made to the party have been immediately returned.
“I’m not aware of any bets. Of course we have made it very clear to our candidates that they should be spending all their time speaking to voters, persuading them of our positive alternative, our future and the opportunity to get rid of the Tories that they can’t miss. That is what they should be focused on.”
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