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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Kiran Stacey and Alexandra Topping

Stay-at-home motherhood being undermined, says senior Tory MP

George Eustice MP
George Eustice: ‘Many women do want to spend those first few years with their child.’ Photograph: Tayfun Salcı/Zuma Press Wire/Rex/Shutterstock

A senior Conservative MP has said stay-at-home motherhood is being undermined by the government’s push to get parents back into work, saying women’s “natural nurturing role” should be valued.

George Eustice, the former environment secretary, said he believed the chancellor Jeremy Hunt had focused too much on encouraging mothers of young children into employment and not enough on incentivising them to stay at home.

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