Maternity pay is excessive', says Tory leadership hopeful Kemi Badenoch

"Maternity pay varies, depending on who you work for. But statutory maternity pay is a function of tax, tax comes from people who are working... This, in my view, is excessive."

"We need to have more personal responsibility. There was a time when there wasn't any maternity pay and people were having more babies."

"I think it's gone too far the other way, in terms of general business regulation... We need to allow businesses, especially small businesses, to make more of those decisions."

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