Business minister admits making bet on Tories winning election: ‘I am always optimistic’

Kevin Hollinrake admitted making a bet on the Tories winning the general election: ‘I am still hopeful’.Source: Good Morning Britain, ITV

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00:00Who knew that so many like to flutter?

00:04So you bet on the Conservatives winning the general election.

00:10Are you happy that you did that?

00:12Do you think that it's OK to do that?

00:14Or what do you make of the others who bet in different ways?

00:19Well, I'm always optimistic, Kate.

00:21And I always felt that was possible.

00:24It was some months ago when I made that bet.

00:26I still think it's possible today.

00:28We just need to keep fighting.

00:29And victory is always possible if you don't stop fighting.

00:32And what we see on the doorstep is markedly different

00:35from what we see in the polls.

00:36So I very much hope that people, ultimately,

00:39when they're making the choice, when they get their ballot

00:42paper, they're putting that cross in the right box,

00:44they'll vote for Rishi Sunak over the next five years,

00:47rather than resign themselves, surrender themselves

00:51to five years of cursed armour.

00:53You've got the line.

00:53Well, you've got the line.