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Kemi Badenoch claims maternity pay remarks had been ‘misrepresented’

By Editorial Board Published September 29, 2024 3 Min Read
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Kemi Badenoch claims maternity pay remarks had been ‘misrepresented’

Kemi Badenoch has stated her remarks about maternity pay have been “misrepresented”, as she referred to as for an “honest campaign” for the Tory management.

The primary day of the Conservative Celebration convention noticed a row erupt over feedback made by the shadow housing secretary, the place she appeared to name the present stage of the profit “excessive”.

As an alternative, she claimed there was “some mischief being made on social media trying to misrepresent me” amid the race to take over from Rishi Sunak.

“I want to talk about serious things, hard truths during this campaign,” stated the management hopeful. “I want to talk about my previous job as business secretary, what businesses told me [about] excessive business regulation.

“Maternity pay is not a type of, however different issues are. That’s how we’re going to get again on observe.”

She added: “It is really important that this leadership contest is one where we have honesty and truth and not misrepresentation of remarks.

“I’m not any individual who’s fazed by that [but] the members of our get together wish to see an sincere marketing campaign, and that is what I’m preventing for.”

Ms Badenoch first made her remarks about maternity pay on Instances Radio, saying the profit was a “function of tax”.

“Tax comes from people who are working, we’re taking from one group of people and giving to another,” she added. “This, in my view, is excessive.”

Challenged on saying maternity pay is “excessive”, the previous minister stated: “I think it’s gone too far, too far the other way, in terms of general business regulation, we need to allow businesses, especially small businesses, to make more of their own decisions.

“The precise quantity of maternity pay, in my opinion, is neither right here nor there. We have to guarantee that we’re creating an setting the place folks can work and other people can have extra freedom to make their particular person selections.”

After the interview, one in all her rivals within the Tory management contest, Robert Jenrick, instructed a fringe occasion on the convention he disagreed along with her, and as a father of three daughters, he “wants to see them get the support they need”.

The previous immigration minister stated maternity pay within the UK was already “among the lowest in the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development)”, earlier than including: “We should firmly be on the side of… working mums trying to get on… why would we want to make it harder on them?”

Nevertheless, when requested by reporters if he would really like maternity pay to rise, he stated he would really like it to remain “at the level where it is” – simply not lowered additional.

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