Kemi Badenoch ‘preoccupied with her children’ says Conservative MP

Conservative enactment campaigner Kemi Badenoch is “preoccupied with her ain children”, a Tory MP has said, telling ITV that “you can’t walk each your clip with your family” portion being Leader of the Opposition.

Mr Jenrick’s run distanced the Tory enactment contender from Sir Christopher’s comments.

Ms Badenoch and Mr Jenrick are vying for the enactment of Conservative members successful their quest to win Rishi Sunak arsenic Tory leader.

Sir Christopher, the MP for Christchurch told ITV Meridian’s The Last Word programme that “I myself americium supporting Robert Jenrick due to the fact that I deliberation he’s brought much vigor and committedness to the campaign, and being person of the absorption is simply a truly demanding job.

“And, overmuch arsenic I similar Kemi, I deliberation she’s preoccupied with her ain children, rather understandably.

“But I deliberation Robert’s children are a spot older, and I deliberation that it’s important that whoever leads the absorption has got an immense magnitude of clip and energy.”

Mother-of-three Ms Badenoch’s youngest girl is five, portion Mr Jenrick besides has 3 children.

He was challenged connected his words by Helena Dollimore, the Labour MP for Hastings and Rye, and erstwhile asked by the presenter what his “concern” was, Sir Christopher explained: “I recognize from talking to colleagues that Kemi spends a batch of clip with her family, which I don’t resent astatine all.”

He added: “But the effect of it is that you can’t walk each your clip with your household arsenic astatine the aforesaid clip being Leader of the Opposition.”

Ms Dollimore said that she thought “there should beryllium nary obstruction to women lasting successful nationalist life”, earlier Sir Christopher claimed helium was being “misrepresen(ted)”.

“You’re wholly misrepresenting what I said,” the Conservative MP said. “What I’m talking astir is the time, committedness progressive successful being Leader of Her Majesty’s, oregon His Majesty’s, Opposition.”

A Jenrick run root said: “Rob doesn’t hold with this. He’s raising 3 young daughters himself.”

Tory members are voting successful the coming days for their caller enactment leader, who is owed to beryllium announced connected 2 November.

Mr Jenrick and Ms Badenoch made it to the last 2 successful the contention aft James Cleverly failed to marque it done the last circular of the MP’s ballot past week.

On Wednesday, Ms Badenoch said during an online rally that she is moving a “grassroots campaign” alternatively than a “media campaign”.

The North West Essex MP said:  “I americium moving hard, I americium moving a grassroots campaign, not a TV run oregon a media campaign. I americium getting retired determination and I americium looking guardant to gathering galore of you connected the run trail.”