Bella Sankey: We know how vital a child’s early years are

Among the festivities of the past month, there are a couple of Tory scandals that might have slipped your radar. One was the Tory MP for Bury North, James Daly, stating that most struggling children in his area are the “products of crap parenting”. The remark came just a few months after fellow Tory MP Miriam Cates blamed the rise of working mothers for the decline in the national birth rate.