Two-thirds of working mothers in the United Kingdom would work fewer hours if they could afford to, according to a recent poll conducted by the government. Less than one-third say that if they had affordable, convenient, and safe daycare, they would want to work more.

So, how does the major center-left party in the U.K. address this situation? By funding government-run day-cares for every single baby in the kingdom.

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The Times of London reports that the party "is looking to fund new nurseries in primary schools across the country to provide continuity of education for younger children.”

“The centres would be integrated into existing schools as part of what Labour claims will be a ‘modernised childcare system’ available from the end of parental leave to the end of primary school.”

While working mothers mostly want to mother more and work less, that’s not what the political class wants them to do. They want those women out of the home as soon as possible and back in the paid economy. This isn’t unique to the U.K., it’s not new, and it’s not just a Labour Party thing.

Twenty years ago, Tory Member of Parliament David Willets called for a “feminist revolution” that would put more women in the workforce. “Europe needs more consumption, more spending and more borrowing,” he wrote to the applause of liberal feminists, and so the UK needs to provide more daycare. More daycare would mean less domestic work for mothers, which would allow more paid work for mothers.

This desire to get every last adult into the full-time workforce has been heightened by the U.K.’s flatlining economy since 2008: Its per-capita GDP has never returned to pre-recession levels there. Politicians and bureaucrats there are desperate to get every last adult to spend every possible minute producing GDP instead of doing things like pushing a kid on a swing.

But this is self-defeating — it’s like a farmer selling his topsoil. More working parents today means fewer workers tomorrow.

Daycare doesn’t give us more kids. Subsidizing daycare is subsidizing work. Willets, 20 years ago, believed that subsidizing daycare could juice the birthrate. In two decades, all the data from across Europe and the U.S. suggests that actually it may do the opposite — it fosters a workist value system that displaces a familist value system, and thus results in fewer kids.

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If the Labour Party wants to spend billions of pounds Sterling giving women what they want, they would instead just create a new monthly child allowance — and build more family-friendly housing.

If they go ahead with their NHS-for-daycare plan, though, that suggests they have other motives.