Nadine Dorries, the UK Government's Secretary of State for Sport, has made an embarrassing gaffe by getting the two codes of rugby mixed up.
The Conservative MP for Mid Bedfordshire was speaking at an event in St Helens to promote the Rugby League World Cup, which is being staged in England in October.
She proceeded to tell the following anecdote: “I’ve always quite liked the idea of rugby league. My long-standing memory is that 2003 drop-goal. Let me reveal a secret, I think we were drinking Bloody Marys at the time. It was 11 o'clock in the morning, but, wow, what a moment that was.”
