One in 12 babies is said to be born underweight due to mother’s poor diet.

Something needs to be done about that, or the gap between rich and poor will get even wider.

Research suggests it makes us look like a callous country, with the poor and the middle classes choosing to live in separate ghettos. We the English can do better than that.

That said, in our divided society I am not too happy about rich mums getting the pregnancy grant. One can only eat so much caviar.

Seriously: we still have a strong whiff of the Victorian snob attitude to the poor.