Rayner responds to government's announcement on Breakfast Clubs at schools

Angela Rayner MP, Shadow Education Secretary, commenting on the government’s announcement that they will be providing funding support for Breakfast Clubs at schools, said: 

“The Tories are still shredding their manifesto one page at a time, and they are trying to hide behind old policy announcements to do it.

“They abandoned their promise of a breakfast for every primary school child, slashed the healthy pupils fund by more than three quarters, and now they are re-announcing a six month old policy and hoping nobody will notice. This is little better than the famous 6.8 pence breakfast - ridiculed and exposed as inadequate at the last election.

“The next Labour Government will give every single primary school pupil a free school meal, to ensure that no child goes hungry at school, as we build a National Education Service for the many, not the few.”