Kemi Badenoch’s ‘maternity pay’ howler is as bad as any Starmer scandal – which is why it has overshadowed today’s events at the Conservative conference.
She said maternity pay had “gone too far” – then had to go back on her words and say she didn’t think it “needs changing at all”.
She had managed to confuse us all by saying the system, set up to support mothers for 39 weeks after having a baby, was a “function of tax”, and also that her comments had been “misrepresented” because she was actually talking about the regulatory burden on businesses.
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Here’s the full dialogue, as described by the BBC:
She said: “Maternity pay varies, depending on who you work for – but statutory maternity pay is a function of tax, tax comes from people who are working.
“We’re taking from one group of people and giving to another. This, in my view, is excessive.
“Businesses are closing, businesses are not starting in the UK, because they say that the burden of regulation is too high.”
She was then asked if this meant “maternity pay is excessive”.
Badenoch said: “I think it’s gone too far – too far the other way in terms of general business regulation.”
She added that “the exact amount of maternity pay in my view is neither here nor there.”
“We need to make sure that we are creating an environment where people can work and people can have more freedom to make their individual decisions.”
She added: “It has got to a point where government has become about technocratic micro policy management. That is not what is going to get this country growing.”
Oh, so using tax to take money from one group of people and give it to another is excessive?
That is all that taxation ever does!
The other rogues in the gallery of Tory leader candidates have been having great fun, of course. They’ve been made to look good – well, acceptable – without having to say a word.
Of course, some of them have been saying words anyway but they’ll have to take the consequences of that.
For the moment, all the bad news is reserved for Kemi Badenoch.
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Badenoch’s ‘maternity pay’ howler is as bad as any Starmer scandal
Kemi Badenoch’s ‘maternity pay’ howler is as bad as any Starmer scandal – which is why it has overshadowed today’s events at the Conservative conference.
She said maternity pay had “gone too far” – then had to go back on her words and say she didn’t think it “needs changing at all”.
She had managed to confuse us all by saying the system, set up to support mothers for 39 weeks after having a baby, was a “function of tax”, and also that her comments had been “misrepresented” because she was actually talking about the regulatory burden on businesses.
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Here’s the full dialogue, as described by the BBC:
Oh, so using tax to take money from one group of people and give it to another is excessive?
That is all that taxation ever does!
The other rogues in the gallery of Tory leader candidates have been having great fun, of course. They’ve been made to look good – well, acceptable – without having to say a word.
Of course, some of them have been saying words anyway but they’ll have to take the consequences of that.
For the moment, all the bad news is reserved for Kemi Badenoch.
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