MP Tracey Crouch claims Prime Minister Liz Truss ‘made promises’ for a football regulator
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EXCLUSIVE: Conservative MP Tracey Crouch claims Prime Minister Liz Truss ‘made promises’ to a football regulator in her manifesto – saying failing to deliver will be a ‘huge test of her own integrity’
- Crouch says Liz Truss promised Tory voters a football regulator in hustings
- Reports suggest new prime minister could scrap promised legislation
- The best Premier League clubs are believed to be against the regulation of the game
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Former Sports Minister and Conservative MP Tracey Crouch says Liz Truss has promised Tory voters this summer a football regulator in hustings to secure votes to become Prime Minister and says it will be a matter of integrity if she breaks her word.
Crouch, MP for Chatham and Aylesford, who wrote the government’s independent review of football recommending the regulator, responded to reports Prime Minister Truss plans to scrap promised legislation in a dramatic government turnaround.
Crouch said: “There’s a general anti-regulation vibe in the new administration, but it’s… [the regulator] is in the manifesto and Liz made promises during the looting, so breaking them is a huge test of her own integrity.”
Conservative MP Tracey Crouch says Liz Truss (above) has promised voters a football regulator
Crouch (second from left) believes Truss breaking her promise would ‘test her integrity’
It will be hugely embarrassing for Truss if it turns out she had promised to go through with the regulator while being questioned by Conservative voters during the looting this summer and then scrapping the legislation, as it will revive similar integrity issues that haunted former Prime Minister Boris. . Johnson.
However, it appears that the government has given in to pressure from the Premier League and the Super League breakaway Big Six clubs, who oppose regulation.
It fits a pattern for Truss dragging into big business because of the concerns of ordinary people, many of whom voted Tory for the first time in 2019.
It looks like the government has given in to the Premier League, which is against regulation
It has also emerged that Stuart Andrew, MP for Pudsey, will be appointed Minister of Sport on Friday.
Although he has no clear background in sports, he is seen as an adept appointment.
However, it reflects the government’s low priority for sport that it has taken more than two weeks to appoint him