Can Tories fix their young voter problem?
The Rundown by PoliticsHome
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🗓️ 13 January 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Andrea Leadsom, a former Cabinet minister and government adviser on early years, and Next Gen Tories co-founder Matthew McPherson join PoliticsHome's Alain Tolhurst and Caitlin Doherty to discuss how reforming expensive childcare is shaping up to be a major political bargaining chip and could be the key to the Tories winning back younger voters at the next election.
Presented by Alain Tolhurst, produced by Nick Hilton for Podot, edited by Laura Silver.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to The Rundown, a podcast from Politics Home. |
| 0:07.4 | I'm your host, Alan Tolhurst. |
| 0:09.4 | With me to discuss how early years and support families is shaping up to be one of the hot political topics of 2023 is my colleague, Caitlin Doherty. |
| 0:17.3 | We're also joined by the former Cabinet Minister and Government Advisor on early years, Andrea Ledson,, and Matthew McPherson, co-chair of the next-gen Tories, a new campaign |
| 0:24.6 | group created to press for Conservative Party to focus on the policy priorities of the under-45s, |
| 0:29.3 | namely housing, childcare and the cost of living. |
| 0:34.8 | We'll start up with you, Andrea, obviously, been an advisor to the government on earlier strategy since 2020. |
| 0:39.1 | Just talk us through the Family Hubbs Network that was launched last year |
| 0:41.8 | and why it's kind of so important to the government's policy in this area. |
| 0:44.9 | Well, I think that the best start for life is actually quite life-changing in England. |
| 0:52.7 | And the Family Hub's is just a part of that. |
| 0:55.0 | So as things stand, we are rolling out family hubs across 75 upper tier local authority areas |
| 1:04.0 | in England plus a further 12 that the Department for Education were rolling out previously to that. So that's just |
| 1:12.8 | over one in two local authority areas in England, will have family hubs. But the point about |
| 1:18.2 | them is that they will focus on outcomes for babies and children. And the area I'm most interested |
| 1:26.2 | in, the thing that I'm chairing on behalf of the |
| 1:28.0 | government, is the best start for life. So the idea is that in family hubs, you will be invited |
| 1:35.0 | there if you're expecting a baby. You'll be able to go there and get antinatal checks to meet |
| 1:40.5 | your health visitor, to have television programs helped by a health visitor regarding giving birth, sleeping, crying, weaning, your relationship with your partner. |
| 1:52.0 | Your other half will be welcome there too. You can have a nice cup of coffee. You can get advice on stopping smoking, on more serious issues like prospective drug and alcohol problems or domestic violence problems. |
| 2:04.6 | So the idea of the family hubs is they will be a one-stop shop for everybody who is expecting or has a young baby |
| 2:12.6 | with a real focus on giving every baby the best start for life. |
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