Mothers worth less in city - Farage

Nigel Farage the Leader of Ukip (United Kingdom Independence Party) during his speech on the City and the EU at the Fishmongers Hall in London. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Monday January 20, 2014. See PA story POLITICS Ukip. Photo credit should read: John Stillwell/PA Wire
Nigel Farage the Leader of Ukip (United Kingdom Independence Party) during his speech on the City and the EU at the Fishmongers Hall in London. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Monday January 20, 2014. See PA story POLITICS Ukip. Photo credit should read: John Stillwell/PA Wire

%VIRTUAL-SkimlinksPromo%Mothers are worth less to City firms than men, Ukip leader Nigel Farage said - but women prepared to sacrifice family life can do as well as male colleagues, if not better.

Mr Farage, who worked in a brokerage firm for nearly 20 years, told an audience in the City of London that he believed women make "different choices" to men for "biological reasons".