By Daily Sports on November 2, 2018

Sports minister Tracey Crouch has resigned over “delays” to a crackdown on maximum stakes for fixed-odds betting machines.

Chancellor Philip Hammond said in Monday’s Budget that the cut in stakes from £100 to £2 would come into force in October 2019.

But Ms Crouch said the delay was “unjustifiable” and it could cost the lives of problem gamblers.

She tweeted: “Politicians come and go but principles stay with us forever.”

Speculation around Ms Crouch’s resignation began after she failed to appear in the Commons earlier to answer an urgent question around the policy’s timing.

But her boss, Culture Secretary Jeremy Wright, refused to say if she had resigned, after being put on the spot by Labour’s deputy leader Tom Watson.

After Ms Crouch’s resignation was confirmed, Mr Watson praised her “courageous and principled decision” and said Mr Wright “should be thoroughly ashamed” of prioritising “corporate interests over victims, profits over public health and greed over good”. (BBC)

•Photo shows UK Sports minister Tracey Crouch

Source Daily Sports

Posted November 2, 2018

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