More U-turns, and government continues campaign to deprive children of food
Anyone else feeling dizzy? This government has done so many U-turns that 2020 feels like some sort of…
Free School Meals
Pitch perfect
It didn’t take long for that entirely predictable U-turn on free school meals during the summer holidays to take place.…
Starmer hails “another welcome U-turn from Boris” on free school meals
Keir Starmer has hailed the government’s changed position on free school meals during the summer holidays as “another…
PM resists calls to extend free school meals despite mounting pressure
Labour launched a ‘Holidays Without Hunger’ campaign over the weekend, with a petition demanding that the government continues funding free…
Why free school meals and Marcus Rashford’s intervention matter
As one of a small number of MPs who received free school meals, I know better than most…
The school meal voucher scheme must continue over the summer holidays
There was a dire, unacceptable food poverty emergency even before the Covid-19 pandemic. Now coronavirus and its economic…
70 MPs raise urgent concerns over free school meal voucher system
Urgent concerns have been raised over the free school meal voucher system that was supposed to have been…
I went without food as a child – 22 years on, things must change
Growing up in Manchester in the ’80s was hard. Poverty was rife on my council estate, and there…
Free universal breakfast clubs would give every child a chance in the classroom
At the general election last May, Jeremy Corbyn and Angela Rayner rightly committed to a manifesto pledge for…
Diane Abbott: The wrong priorities
Sign up to LabourList’s morning email for everything Labour, every weekday morning. The spring statement from Philip Hammond…
