Tory leadership hopeful Kemi Badenoch implied that taxpayer-funded benefit was 'excessive' and called for 'greater responsibility'

Tory leadership hopeful Kemi Badenoch has been under fire for her comments regarding maternity pay. During a car-crash interview on Sunday, she said that maternity pay is "excessive" and had gone “too far”.

We need to have more personal responsibility - there was a time when there wasn’t any maternity pay and people were having more babies." Badenoch later said that sh