The first ever Tory member is to go on maternity leave next year, but not before she revealed that a miscarriage made her rethink a promotion offered by David Cameron.
In an interview with The Spectator, Tracey Crouch, who was offered her dream role as sports minister back in May, revealed that she was unsure about accepting the role because she wanted to start a family.
“I said I wasn’t sure because I wanted to start a family and I said it so very honestly. I said to him [Cameron] I’m 40, I want to start a family, that I’d had a miscarriage during the election and it had changed my priorities on life in general,” she explained.
Speaking of her experience, the soon-to-be mum admitted that the miscarriage made her realise just how much she wanted children and that her priorities changed.
But that wasn't all that she learned from her experience.
"One of the things that I learned actually was how little we talk about miscarriage… I discovered that some of my closest friends had had miscarriages and hadn’t told anybody about it, and it’s, you know, it’s something that they had to cope with by themselves."
The MP for Chatham and Aylesford is due her first baby in February, and will be the first Tory minister to use the shared parental leave with her partner Steve.
