I would normally apologise for linking to the Daily Mail, but on this occasion, as the piece in question has a video showing some of Tim Farron’s first speech as leader, I’m not going to.
The paper quotes Tim Farron expressing support for a motion that’s coming to Conference later this month which would give parents the right to take their children out of school for ten school days for holidays.
He told them:
Many employees have no choice when to take their holidays.
‘People in areas, such as my Westmorland constituency, have to work all through the summer at the height of the tourism season.
So, it’s vitally important to offer more flexibility to schools and headteachers to help families who need to take a break together.
Thornbury and Yate member Karen Wilkinson has written several times for this site about the law change, describing it as “illiberal.” writing in 2013:
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