The UK’s paternity leave system is, for want of better words, a piss-take. Even in the depressing, increasingly dystopian world of 2025, it beggars belief that the UK has been allowed to treat fathers (and, by extension, mothers, and by extension again, all women) this badly for this long.
Our paternity leave system has been described by cross-party MPs this week as “one of the worst in the developed world”. They think it’s outdated and unequal — something that will already be known to any parent, or anyone who’s looked into the paternity leave offerings of other developed countries.
