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Member
Speaking in the House of Commons on 15 September 2025
Debate
Employment Rights BillContribution
Expectant fathers are also a huge part of this, and I am so proud that we have extended that right to them. They grieve, too. We heard the experiences of men who had lost an expected child. One man said he had not been able to take his wife to hospital when she miscarried, because work had not allowed him to leave. She nearly bled to death on the way to hospital. These things have horrific impacts on everybody—not just mentally and emotionally, but physically. He left that job and found somewhere that respects him, his rights and his family’s pain.
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