Badenoch says more children, not immigration, will help with ageing population

Kemi Badenoch had previously said she considered maternity pay in the UK to be ‘excessive’. Photograph: Jeff Overs/PA

People should be having more children rather than the UK relying on immigration to deal with an ageing population, Kemi Badenoch has suggested.

The Conservative leader said the UK needed to answer the question of how we “make sure we can deal with [an] ageing society, people not having enough children”.