EXCLUSIVE: Conservative MP Tracey Crouch claims Prime Minister Liz Truss ‘made guarantees’ for a soccer regulator in her manifesto pitch – and says failure to ship one will likely be a ‘large check of her personal integrity’
- Crouch says that Liz Truss promised Tory voters a soccer regulator in hustings
- Stories counsel the brand new Prime Minister may ditch promised laws
- Prime Premier League golf equipment are considered towards regulation of the sport
Former Sports activities Minister and Conservative MP Tracey Crouch says that Liz Truss promised Tory voters a soccer regulator in hustings this summer time to safe votes to change into Prime Minister and says that it is going to be a matter of integrity if she breaks her phrase.
Crouch, MP for Chatham and Aylesford, who authored the Authorities’s unbiased overview into soccer, which really useful the regulator, was responding to reviews that PM Truss is about to ditch promised laws in a dramatic Authorities U-turn.
Crouch stated: ‘There’s a basic anti regulatory vibe within the new authorities but it surely [the regulator] is within the manifesto and Liz made guarantees throughout the hustings, so it’s a large check of her personal integrity if she breaks them.’
Conservative MP Tracey Crouch says Liz Truss (above) promised voters a soccer regulator

Crouch (second left) believes Truss breaking her pledge would ‘check her integrity’
It will likely be vastly embarrassing for Truss if it emerges that she had promised to go forward with the regulator whereas being questioned by Conservative voters throughout hustings this summer time after which ditches the laws, as it’s going to revive related questions of integrity that dogged former Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
It seems nevertheless that the Authorities has caved into strain from the Premier League and the Tremendous League breakaway Huge Six golf equipment, who’re against regulation.
It suits a sample for Truss in kow towing to huge enterprise over the considerations of atypical individuals, lots of whom voted Tory for the primary time in 2019.

It appears the Authorities has caved to the Premier League, who stand towards regulation
It has additionally emerged that Stuart Andrew, MP for Pudsey, will likely be appointed sports activities minister on Friday.
Although he has no apparent background in sport, he’s considered as an adept appointment.
Nonetheless, it displays the Authorities’s low precedence for sport that it has taken greater than two weeks to nominate him
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