Hammers supporters have demanded the government implement former Conservative sports minister Tracey Crouch’s Fan-led Review of football recommendations in full and at once.

The call from the West Ham United Supporters’ Trust (WHUST) comes after speculation in The Times that new prime minster Liz Truss will kick the fan-led review’s main demand – of an independent regulator for football – into the long grass and give football clubs time to come up with a softer alternative.

Insiders say Liz Truss’s government would prefer to avoid legislation, despite previous Conservative government commitments to publish a white paper this autumn.

An independent regulator was the key finding of the fan-led review of football led by the former Conservative sports minister Tracey Crouch. The plan for the regulator would be to oversee club ownership checks, breaches of rules and even possibly financial distribution.

But people said to be close to the process believe there is now “huge uncertainty” that Truss will push through legislation for a statutory body in the near future. One of Truss’s special advisers is Jason Stein, who has sport as part of his remit. He is understood to prefer that football provides its own solution.

Regulation is a Manifesto Commitment. It was included in the Queen's Speech – her last ever.

The speculation that the new Prime Minister may ditch the proposal is deeply alarming. Boris Johnson promised a legislative bomb to protect our game. Liz Truss appears to have defused that threat to the Premier League’s billionaire owners. Supporters will want urgent reassurance that those commitments to defend our game, made by the previous PM, still stand

The Independent Regulator was first proposed by Government in the aftermath of the reviled European Super League plan which would have torn English football apart.

More than 140,000 people supported a Parliamentary Resolution pressing for the Review Recommendations to be implemented swiftly. The problems of English football are the consequence of market failure. The many failings documented in evidence to the Review included wage costs above annual incomes and unacceptable ideas like the European Super League. The se have not been – and will not be – resolved by those operating within the existing market arrangements.

WHUST believes that football should be:

· Financially sustainable.

· Led by fit and proper owners and directors.

· Have a special responsibility to local cultural heritage.

· Have a reasonable, adult relationship with fans.

WHUST would welcome an early and prominent confirmation that in this respect The Times story was simply a mistake.

Background on the Fan Led Review - whust.org/our-work/fan-led-review

West Ham fans lose trust in Truss after Times report