A woman shouldn't be leader of the Opposition because she has young children

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According to Sir Christopher Chope, 77, Ms Badenoch should not be Tory leader as she has young children.

Is he a dinosaur? Vote YANBU if you think he is.

It's put a bit of spice into the Tory leadership contest - no such thing as bad publicity, etc.

I don't know a single person who is even interested in the result.

I heard they had doubled it to avoid the leader changing every couple of months.

I'm interested to see which of the two crackpots they go for.

I agree. I can't stand her but Chope is an arse and his reasons are ridiculous.

It was going to be televised I think - would have liked to have seen them knock lumps out of each other!

It's a bit of entertainment, now they're not in power.

I think they're considering changing it, not that it has been changed.

They last changed the rules when Hague was the leader

Are you being ironic? The same women who in the last fortnight has attacked maternity leave and the families of ND kids. Her?

Yes that Kemi Badenoch; the one who thinks giving a gong to JK Rowling is a policy.

Not in anyway defending his views here but you're deliberately implying something that isn't true. That's low.

He voted against a bill because he dislikes the parliamentary procedure that was being used to pass it through. Not because he is in favour of upskirting.

Also, he has not committed an act of upskirting something your post implies he did.

He's not wrong that many in the Conservative party think this way. My father who is a dyed-in-the-wool Tory said recently that women with young children shouldn't be in senior leadership positions in the workplace because they can't concentrate properly. And my mum said that women don't make good leaders generally (with the exception of Maggie presumably) because the power goes to their heads 😳

And female predecessors too.
May ... Truss

I remember former Green MP Caroline Lucas said that being an MP is more than a normal full-time job. So from your parents sexist thinking no woman should ever be an MP if they have children.

btw Robert Jenrick's children are about the same age.

He’s a rancid, misogynistic dinosaur, but probably fairly representative of the Tory party membership, I would think.

A load of bollox that's quickly dispelled with fact by referencing all those mothers of young children who have risen to the highest levels of their chosen field whether in politics/government, business, entertainment, science etc.

I could name quite a few off the top of my head but I have no idea who the hell Christopher Chope is. A wait, looks like he's a back bencher who never held a role higher than under-secretary of state back in the early 90s. Sounds a bit like the unfit lad who can just about manage a friendly game of five-aside but thinks he's qualified to decide who should get to play in the premiership.

It's to give the voting party members an excuse.

So in the US men tried to claim Kamala Harris couldn't be President as she was childless

Now in the UK, a woman shouldn't be in power as she has children?

In other words... men don't think women should be in power.

It’s a little whistle to remind them all! No this man is not stupid

Oddly this wasn't mentioned when Ms Truss was standing for leader. I can't think why...

Badenoch shouldn't be leader of anything. Not because she’s got kids, just because she’s clueless and unpleasant. 🙄

So badenoch is unsuitable to lead the tories because she has children. May was unsuitable to lead the tiries because she didn't have children.

Funny how Johnson wasn't unsuitable despite having a tiny baby.

Whatever you think of KB it is utterly offensive to say that a woman with young children cannot be leader of the opposition when Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Boris Johnson all managed it whilst Prime Minister. Blair Cameron and Johnston managed it with babies......

And being unable to say how many children he actually had.

Odd as every male PM including the others who had children while PM did know how many children they have.

Particularly women of colour maybe.

Chope has proven time and time again he’s a complete dinosaur with dubious views on women.

I don’t think his view is probably too unusual of his generation however, I am still asked with some frequency ‘if I work’ or ‘will I go back to work’ - while being my household’s main breadwinner.

No one ever seems to ask men these questions!