Labour Peer Leaves Son to Hit Back in Gambling Bill Row

Evening Standard - London › October 21, 2004

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LORD DONOUGHUE, a special adviser to Harold Wilson and James Callaghan, has come under fire for being on the parliamentary committee that vetted the Gambling Bill despite being part-owner of a racehorse and not revealing his son Steve is chief executive of gambling lobbying firm The Gambling Consultancy. Lord D declines to comment on this startling nondisclosure, leaving his son to rally to his defence.

"I can quite categorically state that my father has not received any money from my company or me and that I have never received any benefit or information or any advantage of any kind from or due to my father's position," Steve tells me from South Africa. "I have only ever worked for two casino clients in the last four years, neither project was involved with the change in the law."

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Labour Peer Leaves Son to Hit Back in Gambling Bill Row

Lord Donoughue is not universally ...

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