I’m starting to feel sorry for Miriam Cates. Every time she expresses an opinion, her words are either coarsely inflated beyond recognition or fiercely spat back at her.
Her latest remarks on children, some of which were made on a Daily Telegraph podcast and others in a speech at National Conservatism Conference on Monday, have already been branded many things from naïve to ‘chilling’. The Mirror ran a piece mockingly entitled ‘Tory fumes we are not having enough kids in rant at Marxist threat to children’s souls.’
Do women not deserve the option to fully be present in those early years?
When asked about the government’s latest plans to allow 30 hours of free childcare for working parents with infants aged nine months or older, Cates had this to say: ‘It is absolutely wrong…The idea that the role of a parent, the role of a mother is to get back to work and contribute to GDP, and that you can somehow outsource that unbreakable bond to institutional childcare.
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