By Eliot Wilson News that four close associates of the Prime Minister are being investigated for betting on the election suggests the Conservative party is taking an increasingly casual approach to basic propriety, says Eliot Wilson It started with an embarrassing story. Craig Williams, a Welsh MP who has been the Prime Minister’s parliamentary aide since 2022, was revealed to have placed a bet of £100 on a July general election three days before Rishi Sunak took Westminster by surprise and announced just such a poll. Williams held up his hands to “a huge error of judgement” and is being inves…