Andrea Leadsom Faces Criticism Over Motherhood Quotes

“I absolutely said, what I specifically said, is that motherhood should not play a part in the campaign”, she said.

He welcomed the fact that the United Kingdom would be getting a second female prime minister – after Margaret Thatcher – and called for a “civilized, inclusive, positive and optimistic debate”.

The row broke out after Mrs Leadsom, a mother of three, said in an interview with The Times of London that having children meant she had “a very real stake” in Britain’s future.

“In front of the Times correspondent and photographer, I made clear repeatedly that nothing I said should be used in any way to suggest that Theresa May not having children had any bearing whatever on the leadership election”.

“I asked her directly “what are the differences between you and Theresa May?'”.

A little-known junior energy minister until she became one of the most ardent voices in the Brexit campaign, Mrs Leadsom is the outsider in the contest to succeed Mr Cameron.

The opposition Labor Party faced its own power struggle as Angela Eagle, the party’s spokesman on business issues, said Saturday that she intends to challenge the party’s leader, Jeremy Corbyn. She said Leadsom responded “first of all she said economic competence, because of her background in the city”, – Leadsom is a former bank executive – “and then she said family”.

While Mrs May is the firm favourite among MPs to become their next leader, Mrs Leadsom’s supporters believe her credentials as a campaigning Brexiteer on the right of the party could garner plenty of support among grassroots members.

Cameron who tendered his resignation after Britain voted to leave the European Union, said the legislation on this case is “also very popular all over the world”.

Andrea Leadsom reportedly made the comments to Saturday’s Times newspaper after Theresa May spoke, in an interview earlier this week, of how she and her husband were unable to have children.

A Tory Cabinet source told the paper: “If Leadsom wins, I think what are at the moment hushed conversations and tea-room chat will quite quickly turn into something more serious”.

“Once we leave the European Union we will be back in control of immigration”.

“I’m gay and in a civil partnership”, he said. “I can still empathize, understand people and care about fairness and opportunity”.

“I don’t like to see those kind of reactions in a potential prime minister because she is going to have to deal with a lot more [and] tougher people than that particular journalist, Rachel Sylvester”.

Speaking to reporters outside Parliament he said: “I believe Andrea now, going to the country, has all that fantastic combination of steel, real grit, real determination, real world experience – working 25 years out of this place (Parliament), setting up charities – and in government she has that experience”.