We would win if we introduced universal childcare. It would transform the lives of many families, and it would be the finest legacy of New Labour.' Not the anonymous musings of a Government minister or despairing Labour MP, but a rank-and-file view expressed recently on a Labour-supporting website.
With the Brown Government weighed down by depressingly low opinion poll ratings and morale within the Labour Party at an all-time low, the Observer suggested a few weeks ago that the search for a 'big idea' may involve an extension of subsidised childcare. The paper quoted an unnamed Cabinet source as saying, 'I think it has to be universal childcare'.
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