Women With Balls: Tracey Crouch

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🗓️ 12 July 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Tracey Crouch MP has earned a reputation for being independently minded. She has rebelled on issues from press regulation to fox hunting; and served as a sports minister until last year until she resigned over the government's stance on fixed odds betting terminals. In this episode, Tracey Crouch tells Katy about being the only student Tory in Hull, swearing at Philip Hammond, and why she's never told anyone what she voted in the Brexit referendum.

Women With Balls is a podcast series where Katy Balls speak to women at the top of their respective games. To hear past episodes, visit spectator.co.uk/balls.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Women with Balls, where I speak to today's trailblazers.
0:07.0	Today I'm delighted to be joined by Tracy Crouch, the Conservative MP for Chatham and Aylesford,
0:12.0	and as of the past month, a record-breaking member of the Women's Parliamentary Football Team.
0:16.0	Since entering Parliament in 2010, Crouch has earned her reputation for being an independent-minded
0:21.4	conservative. She has rebelled on a range of issues from press regulation to fox hunting.
0:27.1	Crouch served as a sports minister until November when she quit to take a stand over her
0:31.3	government stance on fixed odds betting terminals. In protest at the government's refusals
0:36.4	to speed up plans to curb fix odd betting
0:38.8	terminals, Crouch said, two people will tragically take their lives every day due to gambling
0:43.6	related problems, and for that reason as much as any other, I believe this delay is unjustifiable.
0:49.5	The Archbishop of Canterbury praised her actions at the time, as principled and courageous,
1:11.4	may God bless her commitment to doing right. So with that, thank you very much for joining us today, Tracy. Thank you for having me. I think the first time we've introduced a podcast guest by quoting the Archbishop of Canterbury. I have to say, I nearly fell off the sofa when I saw that he had tweeted me. I mean, it's sort of kind of, surely I've banked some good god points in that perspective.
1:14.1	Useful.
1:15.4	Now, on this podcast, we like to start by talking about what you're doing before your current
1:19.1	career as an MP.
1:20.9	So when it comes to your early life, you grew up in Kent, where you say you lived in an estate
1:26.0	where it was mainly boys and you got to play
1:28.2	some football? I got to play a lot of football. The estate that we moved to, my parents divorced,
1:33.7	there was only me and my sister as girls and basically they weren't going to come and play
1:38.1	dollies with us, not that we were particularly dolly girls anyway. So we just played a lot of
1:43.2	sport and football was really the main
1:44.8	sport, although I did everything from skateboarding, beer mixing, fishing, canoeing. Basically,
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