Kate Hoey, Britain's first-ever female sports minister, has been sacked in the Labour government's post-election reshuffle, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) said today.
She was replaced by Richard Caborn, a 57-year-old Sheffield member of parliament.
Hoey's dismissal follows the collapse of a 660 million pounds ($906 million) bid to redevelop Wembley as the new English National Stadium.
"That's politics," the BBC reported Hoey as saying.
Hoey was an often controversial character in her 2-1/2 years in office.
Unusually for a Labour member of parliament, she supports hunting.She also led a call for the reintroduction ofterracing at English premier league soccer grounds. -Reuters
