No Babies Allowed In Parliament, UK MP Stella Creasy Told

Stella Creasy, Co-operative Party leader and Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom, who has on multiple occasions taken her infant children to the House of Commons while caretaking them was this week told babies will not be allowed inside the chamber. "Mothers in the mother of all parliament are not to be seen or heard it seems," the MP said, reacting to the guideline.

She was reprimanded for bringing her three-month-old son into the Westminster Hall on Tuesday, an email copy of which she shared on Twitter. The email dated November 23, citing the 'Rules of behaviour and courtesies in the House of Commons,' mentions "you should not take your seat in the Chamber when accompanied by a child."

Creasy brought attention to the fact that though the Parliament didn't have a present rule on wearing masks despite the prevalence of COVID-19 cases, it wrote a rule forbidding her from taking her "well behaved, 3-month old, sleeping baby" while speaking in the chamber.

Apparently Parliament has written a rule which means I can’t take my well behaved, 3-month old, sleeping baby when I speak in chamber. (Still no rule on wearing masks btw).

Mothers in the mother of all parliament are not to be seen or heard it seems….#21stCenturyCalling pic.twitter.com/rKB7WbYQrL

— stellacreasy (@stellacreasy) November 23, 2021

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Speaker of Commons, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, has directed a committee to investigate the matter, saying rules "change with the times" and have to be seen in different contexts. He indicated that the Parliament had a nursery facility to allow for working parents to participate in and fulfil their political roles in complete measure.

Creasy, who said she is "pleased to hear this," has called for making it possible for politics and parenting to mix.

"I am not allowed in anyway due to having baby leave," she tweeted, saying she hopes existing rules will be reviewed. She tells the BBC she has taken both her children - a son presently breastfeeding and a daughter before that - to the Commons. Creasy asserts that policymaking will be better with "more mums at the table."

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