Labour pledges to expand free childcare programme

Labour will extend the government’s 30 hours of free childcare programme to the parents of all two-, three- and four-year-olds as the party moves a step closer to providing universal support for all families with young children.Jeremy Corbyn will announce on Wednesday that the expanded scheme would benefit more than a million children, claiming the existing “patchy” support on offer is holding back too many families and not reaching the least well-off.Families on the lowest inc