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Rachael Burford

Senior MP criticised after saying Badenoch is ‘too preoccupied with her children’ to be Tory leader

A veteran Tory MP was criticised for claiming the woman battling to become the next leader of the Conservative Party would be too “preoccupied” with her children to do the job properly.

Sir Christopher Chope, 77, said he believed Kemi Badenoch’s three young children, aged between five and 11, would distract her if she became leader of the opposition.

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