Tommy Tainant
Diamond Member
Minister quits over bet crackdown 'delay'
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.
Ms Crouch said pushing back the date was "unjustifiable" and it could cost the lives of problem gamblers.
She tweeted: "Politicians come and go but principles stay with us forever."
Prime Minister Theresa May said she was disappointed Ms Crouch had resigned but there had been "no delay in bringing forward this important measure".
She is absolutely right as well. These machines are a blight on our communities and only lobbying by the gabling industry has enabled them to stay in place. As a sporting gentleman I have watched people shovel a weeks wages into them in a matter of minutes. Evil.
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.
Ms Crouch said pushing back the date was "unjustifiable" and it could cost the lives of problem gamblers.
She tweeted: "Politicians come and go but principles stay with us forever."
Prime Minister Theresa May said she was disappointed Ms Crouch had resigned but there had been "no delay in bringing forward this important measure".
She is absolutely right as well. These machines are a blight on our communities and only lobbying by the gabling industry has enabled them to stay in place. As a sporting gentleman I have watched people shovel a weeks wages into them in a matter of minutes. Evil.
