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By Alys Denby Employers’ national insurance hikes will increase the cost of childcare and put nurseries out of business, making life for working mothers even harder than it already is, says Alys Denby Governments are notoriously bad at picking winners, but Britain is about to find out what happens when leaders are more interested in picking losers. From Darren Jones agreeing that big businesses should “suck up” tax rises to Wes Streeting dismissing independent schools’ “crocodile tears”, Labour has made no secret of the sectors it holds in contempt. But there is one group the government may fi…