Kemi Badenoch said the regulatory burden needed to be lowered and people should exercise ‘personal responsibility’
Maternity pay is "excessive" and people should exercise "more personal responsibility", Kemi Badenoch has said. In an interview with Times Radio, the Conservative leadership contender and shadow communities secretary appeared to criticise statutory maternity pay as she said the Government was doing "too much".
Arguing that businesses were closing because "the burden of regulation is too high", she added: "We need to allow businesses, especially small businesses, to make more of their own decisions.""The exact amount of maternity pay, in my view, is neither here nor there. We need to make sure that we are creating an environment where people can work and people can have more freedom to make their individual decisions.
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