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Transcripts For BBCNEWS Newsnight 20240619



continuing coverage and analysis from our team of correspondents in the uk and around the world. good evening. a police officer working as part of the prime minister s close protection team has been suspended and later arrested over alleged bets about the timing of the general election. and, as we come on air tonight, we can reveal that a second conservative candidate is being looked into by the gambling commission the industry regulator over a bet relating to when the general election would be. it isn t known when the bet was placed orfor how much money. our political editor chris mason broke the stories and has this report. the prime minister in suffolk this morning visiting a nuclear power plant, and wherever he goes he has close protection officers out of view, nearby. iwas close protection officers out of view, nearby. i was tipped off tonight that one of them had put bets on the timing of the general election. the metropolitan police acknowledged i was right ....

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