Theo Clarke

Theo Clarke is the former Member of Parliament for Stafford and chaired the UK's Birth Trauma Inquiry. She hosts the popular women's health podcast 'Breaking the Taboo' and is the bestseling author of 'Breaking the Taboo: Why we need to talk about birth trauma'.

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Maternity care in England is broken – who will fix it?

A parliamentary petition calling for a Maternity Commissioner – launched just three weeks ago – hit an important milestone this week when it reached 100,000 signatures. Myself and women’s rights campaigner and TV personality Louise Thompson organised the petition because we believe an expert in charge of England’s maternity services is vital. We believe it […]

Policy

Why are Labour looking the other way on maternity care?

In 2024, the then Conservative government agreed to a host of recommendations contained in the hard-hitting cross-party parliamentary report on birth trauma led by myself and Rosie Duffield MP. It was called: ‘Listen to Mums: ending the postcode lottery on perinatal care’. Sadly, one year on from the publication we find this Labour government has […]

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