Did Kemi Badenoch really call maternity pay ‘excessive’?

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🗓️ 29 September 2024

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The final four leadership candidates have arrived at Conservative Party Conference to make their final pitches. However, day one and Kemi Badenoch has found herself in an online row over comments made about maternity pay. Katy Balls, Kate Andrews and Fraser Nelson take a look at what was really said, and whether there is a clear frontrunner to lead the Tory party at conference.

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0:18.0	Hello and welcome to Coffeyhouse Sharts, The Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast.
0:26.0	I'm joined by Fraser Nelson and Katie Bowles.
0:29.0	We have just arrived at Tory Party Conference, although Katie you've been here for
0:33.3	slightly longer so you might have a real sense of the mood what's going on?
0:37.3	So it was pretty quiet on Saturday night because in a way you have to be a bit of a loser to come to conference on a Saturday night, which I did for both Labor and Tory.
0:47.0	But having been the Saturday night person at both Labor and Tory, I would say Labour had more people up there on a Saturday night than the Tories did.
0:55.0	Read from that what you will. Maybe there are more activists.
0:58.0	He wanted to be there to be in government.
1:01.0	And of course at the moment the Tory party doesn't have that many
1:04.3	staff because there's no leader, these shadow briefs and so forth is a bit more of a
1:09.2	metal picture. In terms of the vibe at this conference, it's interesting coming from Liverpool to Birmingham,
1:16.0	because in Liverpool you thought it would be a really celebratory affair for labour, but it was a slightly strange mix.
1:22.0	People were very happy, but they were also annoyed at the stories distracting what was meant to be their happy moment. as you would expect I think the party's first annual meet after a devastating election
1:35.5	loss to feel. Ritchie Sunak I think is you know speaking actually around the time we are
1:39.5	recording but he was shortly be leaving the conference and he arrived effectively just to spend Sunday meeting a few donors making a few remarks at a reception.
1:50.0	I think to do the bare minimum he needs to do because it's not really his event. Instead it's all about trying to pick the next candidate.
1:56.5	And I think when you look at Labour's various problems and of course over the weekend we had Rosie
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