The UK's top earners are benefitting the most from shared parental leave as campaigners have criticised the policy as "elitist" and "broken" and Keir Starmer faces an internal push to overhaul the scheme.
New data obtained by campaign group The Dad Shift under freedom of information (FOI) laws found that 60 per cent of those claiming shared parental leave are in the top 20 per cent of earners in the UK and the bottom half of earners made just five per cent of the claims.
