Former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his wife Akshata Murty were spotted arriving at the Conservative Party, along with other leadership hopefuls including James Cleverly and Kemi Badenoch, with Robert Jenrick and Tom Tugendhat arriving later.
Kemi Badenoch quit her job rather than go on maternity leave when she had her second child because she thought it would be 'unfair' on her employer to take it.
He told the author 'she thought it would be unfair to ask us to keep her job open while she was on maternity leave'. After being re-elected in Saffron Walden she later took the MPs' oath of allegiance while carrying her daughter in a sling. At the time she quit the Spectator, Ms Badenoch was already married to her investment banker husband Hamish, meaning there was another source of family income.But Mr Nelson told her biographer: 'Having discovered she was pregnant, she told me she thought it would be unfair to ask us to keep her job open while she was on maternity leave. So she resigned to have her baby.
The Tory leader hopeful stressed her determination to make things more 'comfortable' for would-be parents as she spoke to activists at party conference in Birmingham. Answering questions at a Conservative Women's Organisation fringe, Ms Badenoch was asked how she would prop up flagging UK birth rates.
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