Fund libraries properly and open them 7 days a week

Nearly 800 libraries have closed in England since 2010.

The ones left are open three days a week with volunteers doing work that trained librarians used to do. We tell kids to read more and close the places where they get free books. For people without broadband at home libraries are essential. For kids without books at home they are a lifeline. For lonely older people they are sometimes the only warm place to go where someone will actually talk to them. Fund them centrally. Open them 7 days a week. Staff them properly. And stop pretending a kindle and an internet connection is the same thing because it isnt and everyone who has ever watched a child discover a book in a library knows it isnt.