WHAT BORIS FAILED TO SAY
With reference to the column by Boris Johnson MP, Conservative candidate for Mayor of London (In My View, 10 April), I am pleased he has admitted that childcare is an important social policy issue. However, this is not the view of the national Conservative party, which still wants to reduce spending on childcare.
Mr Johnson rightly draws attention to good-quality childcare and to ensuring sufficient childcare places are available. Both of these were key aims of the 1998 National Childcare Strategy. And they are key aims of Sure Start, children's centres and the 2006 Childcare Act, all Labour initiatives that the Conservative party has opposed.
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