Several local authorities, including some run by the Conservatives, have also announced stop-gap schemes despite facing unprecedented funding cuts – further shaming the Government’s decision not to continue the scheme.
Senior Conservative MP Sir Bernard Jenkin told Sky News’s Sophy Ridge on Sunday: ‘I think we have to admit that we have misunderstood the mood of the country here. Meanwhile, Labour has ramped up the pressure on the Government to perform a U-turn, warning it will bring the motion back to the Commons if ministers do not relent in time for the Christmas holidays.
The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health said in a letter to the prime minister that childhood hunger should ‘transcend politics’, and urged him to match pledges made by the three other devolved nations to continue to provide meals.
MarcusRashford Well done Marcus, well done.
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