Westminster is notorious for anti-social hours and the pressures it puts on family life. So how do MPs manage when they are bringing up children alone?
on his phone, while she voted.. As one of the few MPs trying to combine the demands of a career in Westminster with the duties of a single parent she had little choice.When she was first elected in 2017 her sons were 14 and 18. Her youngest would stay with her in London during the week, often with a friend in tow, and then head back to school in Kent everyday on the train “at stupid o’clock in the morning”.
“I couldn’t have done it without her,” she says. “She just said, ‘Jack get your stuff, get your X-box, get your clothes’, and you know he never really came home after that!” The pandemic when she, Jack and her mother were all living under the same roof, as she worked from home also provided a boost, allowing her a “lovely” opportunity to reconnect with her son.
“I was going to leave politics when I ended up on my own [after her divorce in 2017], and I fully expected to,” she tellsShe had been elected MP for Eastleigh in 2015 when her daughters were just five and ten. But when she became a single parent she found that juggling between work and home life was just too much.
“My previous constituents and my association, my chairman, my friends, they totally got it. It worked out brilliantly because with Covid, the juggle would have been just too much to try to settle their lives and mine… so thank you to whoever helped that come about.” Her ex-husband helps with childcare, and taking her daughters, now 13 and 18, to their sports clubs. Grandparents and friends also pitch in and there is occasional paid help.
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