Furious fathers storm Parliament demanding better pat leave to help families and boost the economy

DOZENS of dads stormed Parliament yesterday, demanding Sir Keir Starmer hole the UK’s paternity leave.

Armed with buggies and babies, they handed implicit a missive signed by 3,000 fathers, calling connected the PM to marque bully connected his promises to backmost families. 

The UK's existent connection for dads is the worst successful Europe, with fathers eligible for conscionable 2 weeks disconnected astatine £184.03 a week oregon 90 per cent of their net - whichever is lower.

Backed by 28 Labour MPs, campaigners from The Dad Shift assertion boosting paternity permission volition not lone assistance families but besides boost the economy. 

Labour MP Josh Simons, who is starring the run successful Parliament, tells The Sun: "Thousands of moving dads successful my constituency were incapable to walk clip with their kids aft birth.

"That is atrocious for dads, for their babies, but besides for mums who are often rapidly forced into becoming the superior carer.

"We indispensable guarantee we bash not physique a 2 tier system, wherever mediate people dads enactment their partners and walk clip with their kids, portion moving people dads are forced backmost to enactment days aft their children are born.

"It was large to basal alongside truthful galore chap Labour MPs today, including Sectary of State Ian Murray, and telephone for changes to the law and the civilization astir paternity leave."

George Gabriel, co-founder of the Dad Shift, besides said: "Most moving dads get conscionable 2 weeks erstwhile a caller babe arrives connected little than fractional the minimum wage, aforesaid employed dads get nothing.

"No wonderment dads are connected the march for thing better. We request a paternity permission argumentation that helps fathers amusement up erstwhile it matters most, that's wherefore we're showing up astatine Parliament - kids and each - to inquire Labour to backmost British Dads."

"Two weeks mightiness bash for a nice travel to Spain, but for the commencement of a child? Bonkers."

The Government has pledged to implicit a review of parental leave, including shared parental leave, wrong its archetypal twelvemonth successful office.

Ministers besides assertion their Employment Rights Bill volition supply time 1 rights to paternity permission for an further 1.5 cardinal parents.