Labour promise of free breakfasts ‘first step on the road to rebuilding childcare’

‘You can’t grow your economy unless you have the right support in place around childcare’, said Phillipson, on a visit to Holy Cross Primary school, Liverpool. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty

Labour will rebuild a new childcare system to ease the pressure on parents from the “end of parental leave right through to the end of primary school”, shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson said, starting with a pledge on free breakfast clubs.

Phillipson will announce on Wednesday that fully funded breakfast clubs for every primary school in England would be funded by the revenues raised by restoring the top rate of income tax to 45p, if Labour were elected.