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Originally Posted by Boeing Guy
Not quite, the National Lottery was introduced in 1994 by the then Conservative Government, John Major was The Prime Minister.
The law on allowing television advertising Online gaming, Bookmakers and Casinos was in September 2007 by the Labour Government, it was one of Gordon Browns first things.
A difference of 13 years, not roughly the same time. 
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Quite right BG, in fact the idea of a national lottery was actually muted by Ken Hargreaves when he was an MP, nobody loved a flutter more than Ken and can remember him discussing the prospects around 1990.