Sir Keir Starmer said the shortage of childcare places meant children were being left behind and parents were unable to build careers.
Labour has set out plans to turn primary school classrooms into 3,300 new nurseries to create an extra 100,000 childcare places.
The spare capacity in schools has been caused by declining birth rates and under the plan some 3,334 classrooms would be converted at an average cost of £40,000.Funding for the scheme would come from imposing VAT on private schools. Paul Whiteman, general secretary of school leaders’ union NAHT, said: “There is certainly a clear logic in using free space in primary schools to expand nursery provision.
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