Queues of people wait to leave empty plates in office garden of Tory MP who voted against free school meals

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“The situations people find themselves in are just unbearable. The stigma that comes with maybe being a single parent, and trying to do the best thing by your child, and society just kind of constantly wants to keep elbowing you in the ribs for it.”

 

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