Kemi Badenoch.

Equalities Minister Kemi Badenoch clashed with fellow politicians – both left- and right-wing – over a bid to give women going through the menopause paid leave from work.

One panellist on the BBC’s Politics Live called the exchange “classic Kemi Badenoch… just trying to find a row wherever she goes”.

By turning the debate into an issue between the left-wing and the right-wing, was she deflecting away from attempts to help people?