Wes Streeting says he is shocked by the extent to which the health and wellbeing of the nation’s children has declined
Good morning. Keir Starmer will today start a series of fortnightly visits around Britain intended to promote Labour’s “missions”, and today he is in the north-west of England launching the party’s child health action plan. He has written about the proposals for the Guardian here.
As Pippa Crerar explains in her report, Starmer is not afraid of claims that measures like supervised teeth brushing for three to five-year-olds in nursery are “nanny state”. Starmer says:
I know that we need to take on this question of the nanny state. The moment you do anything on child health, people say ‘you’re going down the road of the nanny state.’ We want to have that fight.
