Meanwhile the Lib Dems, who called the plan "patronising", have launched their own policies for families.
Plaid Cymru MP Hywel Williams tweeted: "Partial patronising dated selective and lazy journalism at its metropolitan finest".
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The Economist will no doubt disapprove, as it keeps imprisoning us in brackets with the patronising (or her).
As western Europe flounders, the old patronising and unfair treatment of the "east Europeans" is no longer sustainable.
Long seen as the patronising pat-on-the-back for indie movies, it is nonetheless a well-deserved award for a beautiful movie.
"A rather patronising French confection, " one of the drinkers in Claude's tells me.
Beyond patronising businesses that support The Code, travellers should report suspicious activity.
"'All must have prizes' is not just patronising, it is cruel - and with us it is over, " he added.
There persists a patronising assumption that what is worn today is automatically better than anything worn or used in the past.
He has always had clear ideas about what he was up to, and he could explain them simply without patronising his listeners.
His message is inclusive rather than patronising, his style coaxing not hectoring.
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The BBC's Chris Morris in Strasbourg says some critics regard the idea of EU-wide legislation on the gender issue as patronising and counter-productive.
Yet there is a perennial duality in English attitudes to foreigners, which can be suspicious and patronising, but also, sometimes, reverential and entranced.
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But for some, talk of reforming Italian television, and suggestions that showgirls might almost need to be rescued from themselves, are just patronising.
"Any offer of shares to employees is deeply patronising for people who have invested their working lives to a public service, " he said.
The outside world has a role to play, but it is patronising and above all cripplingly counter-productive to believe we have all the answers.
But bosses understand how the tax works, and Gordon Brown's assertion this week that Mr Osborne had somehow misled them into supporting him sounded patronising.
Many trainees had felt some questions were "patronising and insulting" and the point of the literacy and numeracy tests for teachers had to be "thoroughly re-examined", he said.
"A lot of people in the indie sector have a patronising view of people who shop in HMV, " says Simon Price, music critic for the Independent on Sunday.
Both his experience and beliefs made such criticism seem patronising.
Calling it "one of the saddest and most deplorable aspects of the case", Sir William accuses the police of patronising the Lawrences and keeping them in the dark about the investigation.
Not only are such predictions liable to be proven incorrect, they can also come across as patronising: this is the future, they imply, because that's what a bunch of scientists have decided.
We think quotas actually, as Trevor Phillips says, I think quotas end up patronising but there is no question that we want more people from ethnic minorities to be engaged in frontline politics.
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On Labour's opposition to benefit cuts being rolled out as part of the deficit reduction programme, Mr Cameron said they were "patronising people, patting them on the head and putting a benefit cheque in their hands".
Maybe, patronising as it may sound, it is time to start telling people to wrap up warmly with hats and gloves, and if you are going on a long journey take a thermos flask.
We'll combine the vivid immediacy of television and radio with reflective words and interactive graphics in ways which will make the old "and now, here's our next story" bulletins feel patronising, and traditional newspapers seem meagre and pinched.
Some may think that in these days of devolution, the debate is a tokenistic patronising anachronism, but with an election to be fought in Wales shortly (a shock, I know, to 50% of you) the exchanges were lively enough.
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