Education
Born in Ashford, Kent, Crouch was educated at Folkestone School for Girls and graduated from the University of Hull with a law and politics degree in 1996.
Born in Ashford, Kent, Crouch was educated at Folkestone School for Girls and graduated from the University of Hull with a law and politics degree in 1996.
Crouch was a parliamentary researcher from 1996 to 1998 before working in Puerto Rico for Harcourt Public Affairs from 1999 to 2000. She returned to Westminster and held posts as chief of staff to three shadow ministers, including the shadow Home Secretary between 2003 and 2005. Crouch then moved to Aviva where she was the head of public affairs between 2005 and 2010.
Before becoming a minister, she coached an junior girls" football team
Crouch was elected as the Conservative Member of Parliament for Chatham and Aylesford with a majority of 6,069 - the largest majority since the creation of the constituency. Crouch describes herself as a "compassionate, One-Nation Conservative"
Crouch is a vice-chair of the All Party Parliamentary Groups on dementia, alcohol misuse and athletics.
In February 2011, Crouch was elected to the 1922 Committee executive. On 9 December 2010, Crouch abstained in the vote to raise university tuition fees.
She was one of two Conservative MPs to abstain, while six voted against the proposals.
Crouch voted against the badger cull, speaking during the debates on the subject in October 2012 and June 2013. She congratulated other Conservative MPs for voting against or abstaining on the vote, describing the cull as "barbaric and indiscriminate". She has also rebelled against the government in voting against press regulation and in support of mesothelioma victims.
She voted in favour of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Acting 2013.
On 12 May 2015 she was made Minister for Sport.
The Daily Telegraph listed her as one of their "pragmatic, Eurosceptic" new MPs who seeks to "anchor the party to the right of centre".
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