Bridget Phillipson says she wants more young people in UK to have children

Phillipson said: ‘I want more young people to have children, if they so choose; to realise the ordinary aspiration so many share.’ Photograph: Thomas Krych/Zuma Press Wire/Shutterstock

Bridget Phillipson has expressed concern at the UK’s falling birthrate, with the education secretary saying she wanted more young people to have children.

In an article for the Daily Telegraph, written to promote a government policy of providing new nursery places inside about 200 schools across England, Phillipson said she hoped to make it easier for people to have children.