The environment secretary has made much of being a mother. So what will she do about the UK’s air pollution – so toxic, experts advise plastic covers on prams?
Theresa May has never struck me as much of a joker. But was it with a secret snigger that she offered former banker Andrea Leadsom the cabinet seat of environment secretary last year? Leadsom, you will remember, sparked a short-lived but almighty row, and handed May the premiership, when she told an interviewer that she thought motherhood made her a stronger candidate for the Tory leadership.
“I have children who are going to have children who will be a part of what happens next. I am sure Theresa will be really sad she doesn’t have children, so I don’t want this to be ‘Andrea has children, Theresa hasn’t’, because I think that would be really horrible,” Leadsom was recorded saying in an interview with the Times. But “genuinely I feel that being a mum means you have a real stake in the future of our country, a tangible stake”.
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Source: Guardian Climate Change