Sunday 15 May 2022 02:22 AM Victory for partners supporting their wives and girlfriends in labour trends now

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The impact of banning partners from supporting wives and girlfriends in labour is to be examined by the Government’s UK Covid-19 Inquiry in a victory for The Mail on Sunday’s Lone Births campaign.

Inquiry chairwoman Baroness Hallett concluded the issue should be included as a result of the ‘overwhelming weight of opinion’.

The original scope of the inquiry did not include looking at the impact of draconian restrictions that forced many mothers to attend scans and give birth alone. 

Cases reported by the MoS included a father who had to sit in a hospital car park while his wife had surgery after a miscarriage. He had also been banned from the scan that showed their baby had died.