Conservative Party MP Suella Braverman has sparked controversy by suggesting that the UK needs to encourage women to have more children and that people should not view having a family as an 'inconvenience'. Speaking at a fringe event at the Conservative Party conference, Badenoch responded to concerns about falling birth rates.
Badenoch made the eyebrow-raising remarks after a member of the crowd said to the Tory MP: “Our birth rates have been falling for 50 years and now it’s right down below 1.4. We’re nowhere near replacement.”
Badenoch replied: “Someone else asked me this question a bit more bluntly and said, ‘how are you going to get people to have more sex?’After a small pause for laughs, she continued: “But the fundamental point is right. Birth rates are falling and we need to do what we can to support people to start families.”Badenoch replied: “I think there are things we have to do to make sure that we make life comfortable for people who are starting families.
“A lot of people are having fewer children because they start having children later, and so they just can’t have as many as perhaps they might have liked, or they feel they can’t afford children.“People are scared to have families. They are worried about whether they will have birth trauma, we’ve started scaring people about giving birth, they’re worried about what their bodies will look like afterwards, and we need to talk about families as the amazing things they are.
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