Politicians should be slow to claim virtue and I would not do so. However, one of my children, when nine years of age, broke her tooth in the school yard. The tooth was fixed for the princely sum of £25. She was well looked after by the school which did all it could. Some years later, I read in a local newspaper of a case where a child who fell in a school yard, broke a tooth and got three stitches in her knee, was awarded £13,000 in court.