The British public overwhelmingly backs calls to scrap curbs on smacking, a new survey has revealed.
The law on smacking in England and Wales allows parents to smack their children but legislation in 2004 narrowed the defence of “reasonable chastisement”.
Nearly two thirds, 60 per cent, of the public think that the curbs should be scrapped. A similar proportion attributed Labour’s curbs on smacking with a decline in discipline among the young.