Orders of the Day — National Lottery Bill [Lords]

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 8:13 pm on 7 April 1998.

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Photo of Jim Murphy Jim Murphy Labour, East Renfrewshire 8:13, 7 April 1998

I am pleased to participate in the debate. I have listened with interest to many of the comments by hon. Members on both sides of the House. I am particularly pleased to follow the hon. Member for Surrey Heath (Mr. Hawkins), who made some interesting comments. He has an affinity with sport, which I share. However, I had not been aware that he had a keen interest only in swimming, because I understood from the records that he was also quite keen on running: in the build-up to the election, he ran from the marginal seat of Blackpool, South to the Tory safe seat of Surrey Heath.