Opinion: Editor's View - Childcare is a better case for subsidy than many other expenses

Yet it is Tory party chairman Caroline Spelman's payments to a nanny who may or may not have also worked as a constituency secretary that seem to be provoking most criticism. It is astonishing that the ex-chief whip in Brussels, Den Dover, could pay his wife and daughter around £750,000 quite legitimately (although it was embarrassing enough for him to lose his job anyway), while Ms Spelman will have broken the rules if she is found to have paid for childcare rather...