BirminghamKemi Badenoch’s childcare pledge would cover parents earning £1 million.
Party officials put the cost at £700 million a year, funded by cutting staff at arm’s-length public bodies.
Parents earning over £100,000 lose the entitlement now, and the Tories would give 30 free weekly hours to all working 16 hours.
Badenoch hinted she would cut inheritance tax only if it were fiscally responsible.
She says shadow cabinet ministers will present further policies at the conference this week.
How each outlet framed it
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- EXPRESS
- frames Badenoch's manifesto as intellectual recovery of Conservative principles and retrospective critique of past policy failures
- Bloomberg Business
- Yahoo News UK
- uses personality contrast—Badenoch as 'no-nonsense mum' vs. Burnham's 'cheesy uncle'—to frame party repositioning
Sources: EXPRESS, Bloomberg Business, Yahoo News UK