I’m all for the nanny state – but we should abolish fines for holidays in term time | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

Some parents are sticklers for the rules, yet mass civil disobedience by parents in England and Wales suggests many agree with me Perhaps it’s my stage of parenthood, or the fact that I’ve been lying awake at night, but I think I have an idea that could secure the electoral future of the Labour party. All Andy Burnham needs to do to win a landslide at the next general election is abolish fines for parents who take their children on term-time holidays. More than 2 million – around a fifth – ha...

By Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett