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Connolly, then a 41-year-old Northampton childminder, added: "If that makes me racist, so be it."

She'd spend hours every week travelling between her home, her son's childminder's and her office, taking six buses every weekday.

While calling for "mass deportations now", the 41-year-old childminder wrote: "If that makes me racist, so be it."

A childminder has said that costs are deterring people from going into the profession and the current childcare subsidy scheme does not go far enough.

It is currently running a consultation on potentially changing ratios for how many children should be under the care of one registered childminder, and urged parents and people from across the childcare sector to respond.