Anna Whitehouse has spent the morning at No 10. Baby Lola, eight months old, came too. Not that she could say anything, but because Whitehouse couldn’t get childcare. Some acts, however, are louder than words.

Whitehouse was there to meet Bridget Phillipson , the minister for women and equalities, who had days earlier announced her desire for more young people to have babies.

It was, in a word, triggering for the 43-year-old, who under the pseudonym “Mother Pukka”, has been a lively and relentless mouthpiece for a generation of burnt out, financially drained parents.

Phillipson’s foot in mouth statement had prompted Whitehouse to write an excoriating Instagram post to her 438k followers saying as much: “How on Earth can parents be expected to ‘make memories’ when the cost of childcare

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