The Conservative leadership candidates are courting a selectorate who value narcissism and psychopathy. The competition is on to be the most outrageous, writes Zoe Williams
The Conservative leadership candidates are courting a selectorate who value narcissism and psychopathy. The competition is on to be the most outrageousfor Conservative leader thus: “Statutory maternity pay is a function of tax; tax comes from people who are working. We’re taking from one group of people and giving to another. This, in my view, is excessive.
It really wasn’t obvious at all, nor was it clear how listening to that interview without parsing it for meaning would have helped the party back into government. Speaking for herself, Badenoch said on X: “Of course I believe in maternity pay!” Then: “Of course maternity pay isn’t excessive … no mother of 3 kids thinks that.”
What should a Conservative member, choosing a party leader, with their eye on starting a family at some point, make of it all? Should they believe regulation-slashing interview Badenoch, who will strip them of their maternity rights? Or the more reasonable post-interview Badenoch, who wants the world of workplace rights to remain as it is, except with less regulation? Fanciful question, of course: it would be impossible to dig out any concrete intentions from any of...
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