We should celebrate Labour’s good news on nurseries – but it needs to be bolder | Polly Toynbee

Funding schools to set up nurseries works. Why spend more on older children, when we know spending earlier is most effective?Despite the rampaging rogue state across the Atlantic, around the cabinet table ministers push on with their plans. Too often ignored in all this sound and fury, there is some good news. This week Bridget Phillipson awarded the first 300 primary schools funding to set up nurseries that will add up to 4,000 places by the end of September. In the great dash for growth, growt