All bets are off.

A day after the Conservative Party's latest attack ad accusing the Labour Party of gambling with the public purse, a story broke which is so apt, not even the Thick of It would have contemplated as being too implausable.

It seems that two prosepctive Conservative candidates, a policeman and the Conservative Party Director of Capaigns, are all under investigation by the Gambling Commission due to all having placed bets the day before Sunak's announcement of the election on the actual day chosen.

Further to that, scouring at data from Paddy Power shows a huge spike in the number of bets on the election being the first week of July.

Funny that.

So it seems the opportunity to wring a few more pounds out of being in power was just too difficult to ignore, to the grifters grifted.

Only the policeman is suspended, as his standards are apparently held higher than those of prospective MPs or Sunak's most senior aide.

Can we just get rid of them now?