Orders of the Day — National Lottery Bill [Lords]

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 7:59 pm on 7 April 1998.

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Photo of Mr Nick Hawkins Mr Nick Hawkins Conservative, Surrey Heath 7:59, 7 April 1998

The hon. Member for High Peak (Mr. Levitt) and I share a common interest in sport, although I do not agree with some of what he has just said. We have both been trying to get ready for the coming cricket season and, although we are not trying to be the first-class athletes whom the hon. Member for Harrow, West (Mr. Thomas) was talking about, I hope that we have some profitable and hard-hitting partnerships when the season gets under way.

The hon. Member for High Peak may not have realised that he was on dangerous ground when he referred to my right hon. Friend the Member for South-West Surrey (Mrs. Bottomley) and her comments about millionaires. Perhaps he did not realise how much hilarity he caused us—