Changing nappies is not the best guide to being a good father | Vanessa Thorpe

Harriet Harman called out Jacob Rees-Mogg as a ‘deadbeat dad’ but she was wrong to see nappy skills as a true marker of fatherhood

Who out there wants to be a “deadbeat dad”? No takers? If you put aside the fact this insult is pleasantly alliterative and rather quaint, it is clearly not a good thing to be called.

When Harriet Harman used the term to urge the fathers of Britain to change more nappies last week she put the fear of god into them by pointing at Jacob Rees-Mogg, the Tory MP and father of six who has just admitted that, among other stone-aged attitudes, he does not see a dirty nappy as his problem.

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