{"id":74811,"date":"2018-11-02T12:05:24","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T16:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=74811"},"modified":"2018-11-02T17:50:45","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T21:50:45","slug":"bbc-sports-minister-tracey-crouch-resigns-over-delay-to-betting-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=74811","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Sports Minister Tracey Crouch resigns over &#8216;delay&#8217; to betting crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sports minister Tracey Crouch has resigned over &#8220;delays&#8221; to a crackdown on maximum stakes for fixed-odds betting machines.<\/p>\n<p>Chancellor Philip Hammond said in Monday&#8217;s Budget that the cut in stakes from \u00a3100 to \u00a32 would come into force in October 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Crouch said pushing back the date was &#8220;unjustifiable&#8221; and it could cost the lives of problem gamblers.<\/p>\n<p>She tweeted: &#8220;Politicians come and go but principles stay with us forever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Theresa May said she was disappointed Ms Crouch had resigned but there had been &#8220;no delay in bringing forward this important measure&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-politics-46057548\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It is with great sadness I have resigned from one of the best jobs in Government. Thank you so much for all the very kind messages of support I have received throughout the day. Politicians come and go but principles stay with us forever. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rD8bEbCQcK\">pic.twitter.com\/rD8bEbCQcK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tracey Crouch (@tracey_crouch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tracey_crouch\/status\/1058053597399789568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 1, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports minister Tracey Crouch has resigned over &#8220;delays&#8221; to a crackdown on maximum stakes for fixed-odds betting machines. Chancellor Philip Hammond said in Monday&#8217;s Budget that the cut in stakes from \u00a3100 to \u00a32 would come into force in October<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=74811\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,199,168,87,151,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-gambling","category-politics-in-general","category-poverty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74811"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74813,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74811\/revisions\/74813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}