Birthrate Badenoch urges Britons to have more children

People should be having more children rather than the UK relying on immigration to deal with an ageing population, Kemi Badenoch has suggested.

- Rowena Mason

The Conservative leader said the UK needed to answer the question of how we "make sure we can deal with [an] ageing society, people not having enough children".

She said it was not the right option to rely on immigration, which is "making things worse; it is making us all poorer".

Asked during BBC One's Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg programme whether she thought people should be having more children, she said: "I do, but that's a personal choice. But we have to look at the demographics of our country. We cannot solve it with immigration."

She said trying to "fix" the problem of an ageing population with immigration "had not worked" when governments had tried it in the past.