Monday's front pages are dominated by reports of Israel's air strikes on Yemen and its offensive against Hezbollah in Lebanon ...

Tory leadership candidate Kemi Badenoch has suggested maternity pay has "gone too far" and the government needed to interfere ...

Tom Tugendhat and Kemi Badenoch will face questions from party members in Birmingham, while Ms Truss is expected at a fringe ...

Comments suggesting maternity pay has "gone too far" have been seized on by leadership opponents as Tory conference gets ...

The contest for the party's top job intensified on the first day of the Conservative conference in Birmingham.

Robert Jenrick said that the party should be ‘firmly on the side of parents’ in the wake of Ms Badenoch’s interview.

Leadership rivals Jenrick, Cleverly and Tugendhat reject her comments, as row over her ‘excessive’ claim escalates. ...

Kemi Badenoch has insisted she does not think statutory maternity pay is “excessive” as a row over her views overshadowed the ...

As the Conservative Party's first annual conference in opposition since 2009 gets under way in Birmingham, we spoke to all ...

Kemi Badenoch was last night frantically battling to keep her Tory leadership bid on track after her claims that maternity ...

Statutory maternity pay is “excessive” and the red tape around the benefit has “gone too far”, Kemi Badenoch has suggested.

We need to have more personal responsibility - there was a time when there wasn’t any maternity pay and people were having ...