Craig Williams is a politician has always seemed to land on his feet. But right now it looks like the tide has turned against the former Cardiff councillor whose easy charm had previously seemed to cushion him from all disasters. At home in Wales, the sitting MP for Montgomeryshire seemed to easily win nominations for winnable Tory seats and while at Westminster, he landed a series of roles at the heart of government most recently as the Prime Minister's parliamentary private secretary.
Yet he is now fighting for both his political future, his seat in Parliament and his wider reputation after admitting a "huge error of judgement" in placing a £100 bet on an online gambling website on the date of the election. The Conservative Party has withdrawn all support for him and the latest polls projections suggest he is in with a battle to keep his seat. He is also being investigated by the Gambling Commission.
READ MORE: Five key seats in Wales to watch at the 2024 general election READ MORE: The beautiful part of Wales that could change its mind for the first time in decades Craig Williams has already felt the crushing disappointment - and lifechanging implications - of electoral loss, in 2017 he lost his Cardiff North seat just two years after being elected. On June 8, 2017, as he walked into the Sport Wales centre in Cardiff to hear the election results he already knew he lost. He had been to the BBC Wales studios in Llandaff to give his view of the campaign and, as he went on ai.