The Conservative party leadership candidates are hopelessly out of touch and seem to be competing with one another to be the most unkind and nasty.
Maternity pay in the UK is lower than in many other economies – forcing too many mums back from leave early.
The Tories don’t appear to have any solutions for this country. All they have left is performative cruelty and division.
Kemi Badenoch for her comments about maternity pay. Ellie Reeves, the Labour party chair, said:
It is symptomatic of the Conservative party as a whole that this is the kind of intervention that one of their leadership contenders is coming out with. The Tories and their continuity candidates are completely unserious about the problems they inflicted on the country over 14 years of chaos and decline.
the Telegraph reports, Tom Tugendhat delivered a jibe at Sue Gray, Keir Starmer’s chief of staff, when speaking at a fringe meeting. He said:
To be fair to Sue, she’s demonstrated that she really is an impartial civil servant.
I mean, she, after all, brought down one prime minister who was a Conservative, and now she’s working on bringing down another one who happens to be Labour.
I think she’s demonstrating the kind of political balance that we expect for the civil service, destroying political careers, wherever they may be found.
plan to cut the farming budget, which pays for cleaning up water, by about £100m a year. He said:
The farming budget is incredibly important, and the rumours of the farming budget being reduced by £100m per annum will have huge negative consequences on the amount of subsidy that is able to be put into the improvement measures that we announced previously and were able to put in place as a Conservative government.
12.21pm) shows how “hopelessly out of touch” the Tories are. He said:
The Conservative party leadership candidates are hopelessly out of touch and seem to be competing with one another to be the most unkind and nasty.
Maternity pay in the UK is lower than in many other economies – forcing too many mums back from leave early.
The Tories don’t appear to have any solutions for this country. All they have left is performative cruelty and division.
to cover up welcoming cartoon murals for children. I was uncomfortable reading that. Is the story true?
Jenrick says most of the people at this centre were 16, 17 or 18, or adults posing as children. He wanted to change the way those centres operated so there is “an element of law enforcement”.
But he says people, especially children, should be treated with care and compassion.
The most compassionate thing to do would be to end the business model that allows people smuggling to carry on, he says.
Kemi Badenoch?
Jenrick says Badenoch is a person friend. There is a strong field of candidates, he says.
He says the party needs to come together. He wants the shadow cabinet to be full of the best people in the party.
a “Hamas are terrorists” hoodie. He does not criticise the sentiment, but he suggests that sort of stunt does not make him relatable to ordinary people.
Jenrick jokes that the top should have said Hamas and Hezbollah are terrorists. He says he has run an energetic campaign, and claims that his social media has been seen by more people than other candidates’.
Kemi Badenoch said?
Jenrick says he does not agree with Badenoch on this.
I don’t agree with Kemi on this one. I am a father of three young daughters. I want to see them get the support that they need when they enter the workplace.
Our maternity pay is among the lowest in the OECD.
I think the Conservative party should be firmly in the side of parents and working mums who are trying to get on.
The Tories should not be focusing on measures that make life harder for working parents, he says.
Source: theguardian.com
