campaigning in wales today, but his efforts to promote the conservative s welsh manifesto were overshadowed by questions about tory insiders allegedly gambling on the date of the election. the prime minister insisted multiple independent investigations were under way and that any tories found to have broken betting rules would be booted out of the party. lets take a listen: there are full investigations that are currently happening. it s right that those investigations are allowed to proceed. they are independent. they are necessarily confidential, as you will appreciate. there s also a criminal investigation, and these are potentially criminal matters and the police are conducting those. you ll be aware of that. and because of that, i hope you can appreciate there s not much more i can add. what i can tell you is, as i said, if anyone is found to have broken the rules, they should not only face the full consequences of the law, i will ensure that they are booted out of t
obviously, therefore, it s a kind of punishment for this gap between the two groups of people. i would remind you that these people were very well treated, respected and never humiliated. that s why i m so shocked by this ruling. the bbc s anbarasan ethirajan gave me this analysis on the case. what we know is that three employees, former employees of the hinduja family, this is regarding their employment with them, and according to the court documents, they were paid only $8 a day, more than 90% less than what the swiss average or minimum wage is in that country. now, the court ruled, they ve given them various jail sentences. at the same time, they were cleared of these very serious charges of human trafficking because they were accused of withholding the passports of their employees. now, the interesting thing is the prosecutors pursued the case even though there was an out of court settlement with the employees we don t know how much amount it was paid but according to