Flagship policy of Nick Clegg to give free meals to all schoolchildren should not be cancelled,says current shadow education secretary Lucy Powell Millions of children will go hungry whether George Osborne scraps universal free school meals for infants at the spending review, Lucy Powell, or the current shadow education secretary,has said.
Powell, who is in her first week in the job under Jeremy Corbyn, and said Labour was opposed to scrapping free school meals for all five to seven year olds because it could be damaging for children at the same time as the government slashes tax credits.
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Source: theguardian.com