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 Fiona Mactaggart Fiona Mactaggart Labour, Slough 7:59, 7 April 1998

I am sorry to intervene, but I watched the hilarity, and I have to say that it is very irritating when the only thing to which Conservative Members will respond is the amount of money with which one is born. Since I was elected to the House, there are two matters on which I have been lobbied by the sort of people among whom I was born and brought up—one is the defence of their right to hunt furry foxes, and the other is the defence of their right to be overpaid consultants to bodies that have been milking the lottery until now, but which will not be able to do so in future.