Keir Starmer has unveiled as plan for children to be supervised by teachers when they brush their teeth, in a renewed defence of the “nanny state”. He announced plans to improve child health under a Labour Government, arguing that children are “probably the biggest casualty” of the last 14 years of Conservative Government. The Labour leader claimed that, if the Government were a parent, they could be charged with neglect. Speaking ahead of a visit to a children’s hospital, Starmer said: “The moment you do anything on child health, people say ‘you’re going down the road of the nanny state.’ We …