This morning Parliament’s own spending watchdog, the National Audit Office, publishes a damning indictment of the government’s botched and flawed chidcare rollout.

As Labour has said all along, this was a pledge without a plan.

A thread: 🧵
theguardian.com/money/2024/apr…

Yesterday, before the embargo on the report lifted, the government rushed out a ministerial statement.

They were desperate to get ahead of the National Audit Office report — a shameful attempt to evade scrutiny on what the spending watchdog found.
hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2024-0…

As The Labour Party’s @HelenHayes_ rightly said, with red lights flashing across the board, this was a weak attempt by the Government to defend their bungled expansion of childcare provision.
x.com/helenhayes_/st…