Winterson said putting post offices and creches in libraries would increase the amount of people visiting them.

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Whether that's schools, whether that's gyms, whether that's creches, whether that's bingo halls, whether that's markets - that's the kind of thing we'll be looking at.

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The poor also depend much more on those items of spending likely to be counted no longer affordable: creches, benefits, public health initiatives, subsidised travel on public transport and so on.

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