IT WAS a Lib-Lab pact which must have had everyone's vote.
Eastleigh's Liberal Democrat candidate Chris Huhne and Labour's Westminster hopeful Chris Watt got together to add their signatures to the NSPCC's giant election pledge for children.
Prospective MPs are being urged to make a commitment to protect children in three keys areas:
Providing young people with someone to turn to via helplines, schools' counselling and independent advice and therapeutic services.
Making the Internet safer for young people.
Giving children the same legal protection from assault as adults.
Backing the pledge was Eastleigh's retiring Liberal Democrat MP David Chidgey, who since 1995 has been president of the local NSPCC branch.
Mr Huhne said: "Children should have the same protection under the law on assault as adults so that a parent who is systematically beating a child cannot use the defence that it is reasonable chastisement."
And Mr Watt said that he was also pleased to back the pledge, which was part of NSPCC Children's Day aimed at urging people to help vulnerable children and families.
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