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Ukip MEP: Pregnant women should resign
Sarah Left
Tuesday July 20, 2004
The UK Independence party today named a man who would like to overturn maternity leave rights as its representative for the European parliament's committee on women's rights and gender equality.
Ukip MEP Godfrey Bloom told Guardian Unlimited that maternity policy should be: "If you want to have a baby, you hand in your resignation and free up a job for another young lady."
Mr Bloom was selected by the party's chairman to "represent men's rights" on the influential committee. He still needed to be voted in by the European parliament in order to take his seat as a member of the committee.
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