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'The childcare election battle begins,' the BBC said last week as it described the techniques used by Labour and the Tories to woo working parents. In The Times, Janice Turner said that after years of condemning mothers' choice, the Tories are 'suddenly all over us'. In The Observer, Mary Riddell said that Michel Howard had previously evinced 'as much interest in childcare as he has in garage music' and that not long ago, Tony Blair's speech to the Daycare Trust would have been 'almost as unlikely as the Queen opening a super casino'. She also described the way that Jeremy Paxman conducted a debate between Margaret Hodge and Theresa May on Newsnight 'as if he was refereeing a clash over croquet scores between Bertie Wooster's aunts'.

In The Observer, Mary Riddell said that Michel Howard had previously evinced 'as much interest in childcare as he has in garage music' and that not long ago, Tony Blair's speech to the Daycare Trust would have been 'almost as unlikely as the Queen opening a super casino'. She also described the way that Jeremy Paxman conducted a debate between Margaret Hodge and Theresa May on Newsnight 'as if he was refereeing a clash over croquet scores between Bertie Wooster's aunts'.

Cabinet minister Alan Milburn told The Observer that fathers should not be forced to take paternity leave. The politician, who took a 'career break'

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