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Christopher McKeon

Statutory maternity pay is ‘excessive’, says Badenoch

Maternity pay is “excessive” and people should exercise “more personal responsibility”, Kemi Badenoch has said.

In an interview with Times Radio, the Conservative leadership contender and shadow communities secretary appeared to criticise statutory maternity pay as she said the Government was doing “too much”.

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