16. Parenting, politics and parliament

New Zealand’s Labour prime minister Jacinda Ardern has announced she will be having a baby in the summer. So how easy is it to juggle parenting with politics?

Labour MP Darren Jones recently brought his newborn daughter into the UK parliament for a three-line whip on Brexit – he speaks to to Alison McGovern, Richard Angell and Conor Pope about that, as well as the Boris bridge to France.

Further reading:

*Sign the petition for extended maternity leave for mothers of premature babies 

*Yvette Cooper on rewriting the rules for having a baby in office 


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