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		</div><p>Andrea Leadsom has apologised to Theresa May &#8220;for any hurt I have caused&#8221; after the row over comments which appeared to suggest being a mother gave her an advantage as a potential British prime minister.</p>
<p>The energy minister insisted that she did not want motherhood to play a part in the campaign and &#8220;deeply regret that anyone has got the impression that I think otherwise&#8221;.</p>
<p>Mrs Leadsom said she had felt &#8220;under attack&#8221; since the row over her comments, which were branded &#8220;vile&#8221; by one senior Tory MP while a fellow minister said it showed she was unsuitable for Number 10.</p>
<p>In an interview with The Times, Mrs Leadsom said: &#8220;Genuinely I feel that being a mum means you have a very real stake in the future of our country, a tangible stake.&#8221;</p>
<p>The British Home Secretary has previously spoken about how she and husband Philip were affected by being unable to have children.</p>
<p>Mrs Leadsom told the Daily Telegraph she believed that having children has &#8220;no bearing on the ability to be PM&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#8220;I absolutely said, what I specifically said, is that motherhood should not play a part in the campaign,&#8221; she said.</p>
<p>&#8220;I was pressed to say how my children had formed my views. I didn&#8217;t want it to be used as an issue. Having children has no bearing on the ability to be PM. I deeply regret that anyone has got the impression that I think otherwise.&#8221;</p>
<p>Asked if she would apologise to Mrs May she said: &#8220;I&#8217;ve already said to Theresa how very sorry I am for any hurt I have caused and how that article said completely the opposite of what I said and believe.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mrs Leadsom said she felt &#8220;under attack, under enormous pressure. It has been shattering&#8221;.</p>
<p>In the wake of her Times interview, business minister Anna Soubry said Mrs Leadsom&#8217;s comments meant she was &#8220;not PM material&#8221; while Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson said there was a &#8220;gulf in class&#8221; between the two candidates and senior MP Sir Alan Duncan said the energy minister&#8217;s remarks were &#8220;vile&#8221;.</p>
<p>But Mrs Leadsom&#8217;s key supporter Iain Duncan Smith, the former Tory leader, claimed she is facing a &#8220;black-ops&#8221; campaign by MPs who want to &#8220;denigrate her reputation&#8221;.</p>
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