Today’s Sunday Times carries an interview (£) by Caroline Wheeler, political editor, of Kemi Badenoch, tipped to be the next leader of the Conservative party following a members’ vote. The result of the contest will be announced on 2 November.
Badenoch’s comments on absent fathers closely echo those made by David Cameron early in his premiership. Absent fathers are feckless. All of them. No recognition that so many men would give anything to be active fathers in their children’s lives, but are stopped by their ex-partners and the family courts.
I am hopeful that Reform UK will have policies in their 2029 manifesto concerning access between children and both parents following family breakdowns.
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