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Evening Standard
Politics
Nicholas Lester

Botham’s daughter rallies to his defence over ‘aggressive’ Lords no-show jibe

Lord Botham was accused of ‘being in Australia all the time making money from foot massagers’ - (PA)

The daughter of England cricketing legend Lord Botham has batted away an “unnecessarily aggressive and accusatory attack” on her father over his failure to turn up at Westminster.

Sarah Botham rallied to the defence of her father after Labour peer Lord Foulkes of Cumnock argued Lord Botham never attends because he is “in Australia all the time making money from foot massagers”, a reference to his appearance in TV adverts.

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