The leader of Warwickshire County Council plans to shield "stern dads" from what he believes to be a "weaponised" system of social services referrals.

Cllr George Finch made the comments at Reform UK's party conference while speaking to a Centre of Social Justice presentation on its Lost Boys project – work to highlight crises facing boys and young men in the UK.

Grim statistics on male suicide, educational achievement and the prospects of boys in relation to girls were laid out with Cllr Finch talking about his own experience of having a father who took the lead at home and the benefits that had.

He argued that "for too long it has been promoted that mums are the main ones who care for the kids" before citing maternity units in hospitals as an example of public systems being weighted a

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