Culture secretary eager to increase participation throughout UK‘I don’t want a sports star from a council estate to be held back’Nadine Dorries has urged sports to do far more to boost opportunity and activity levels in Britain’s poorest communities, the new culture secretary saying she wants the next Emma Raducanu to be just as likely to come from Burnley as Bromley.
In her first major speech on sport and physical activity since taking charge last month at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Dorries revealed the government was working on a new strategy for sport for 2022 that would include broadening participation and getting more people active, particularly in underrepresented groups.