Sunday Sports Bill

Part of Petitions – in the House of Commons at 12:02 pm on 17 February 1989.

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Photo of Ann Widdecombe Ann Widdecombe , Maidstone 12:02, 17 February 1989

I shall finish this point and then give way.

I have no sympathy with the view that if the law is broken extensively the only way in which to meet that is to legitimise the law breakers. Those who share my views were challenged by my hon. Friend the Member for Devizes (Sir C. Morrison) who asked why the Lord's Day Observance Society did not prosecute more often and why we did not seek to close down enterprises that were already open? Why the law is not enforced more rigidly is a valid question, but there is a difference—