Latest updates: Bridget Phillipson, shadow education secretary, says Labour will overhaul childcare system as reports show high costs and lack of availability
The Conservative MP Pauline Latham, who represents Mid Derbyshire, has announced she will stand down at the next election, the BBC reports. Latham, 75, is the 24th Tory to say they will quit at the election, according to this Daily Mirror tally.
Bridget Phillipson, the shadow education secretary, has been giving interviews this morning ahead of her speech later. On Sky News, in response to a question about Boris Johnson’s outside earnings (which account for 85% of the total outside earnings declared by all MPs, according to Sky News), she said the Conservative party was “rotten from top to bottom”.
