The Conservative Party leader was one of nearly 200 MPs to take part in a children's manifesto competition organised by the Pre-School Learning Alliance as part of its 40th anniversary celebrations.
The competition saw a host of well-known politicians write manifestos through the eyes of a five-year-old child. Liberal Democrats leader Charles Kennedy suggested that children should have the same rights as their parents when deciding when bedtime is and called for the banning of green vegetables, because choc-ice and chips would constitute a proper meal.
Education and employment secretary David Blunkett said he wanted to have compulsory bedtime stories, while Liberal Democrat MP Phil Willis outlined plans for a magic sweetie jar that never empties no matter how much you eat, and a bedroom that tidies itself when you leave the room.
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