EATIN’ MESS
Etonian Bozo STILL won’t help poor kids
OLD Etonian Bozo Johnson says he understands England ace Marcus Rashford’s bid to help starving kids in the school holidays. But the silly sausage STILL won’t help them.
The Prime Minister, pictured dishing out a sandwich packed with bangers on a hospital visit, refused to offer a crust to Britain’s poorest children.
Eton- educated Boris did not budge on his resistance to the Manchester United striker’s campaign to extend free school meals to youngsters during the holidays.
Speaking during a visit to a hospital in Reading he said: “We don’t want to see children going hungry this winter, this Christmas, certainly not as a result of any inattention by this Government.
“And you are not going to see that.’’ The free school meals extension was rejected by MPS in a vote in Parliament last week, but pressure was mounting on the PM to do a U- turn.
The Government’s own advisory committee on social mobility is backing Rashford’s mission.
Struggling
In a statement the Social Mobility Commission urged the Government to “extend free school meals during holidays until Covid restrictions are lifted as part of a wider move to combat food poverty”.
It went on: “We know that the pandemic is having its greatest impact on the poorest regions in Britain where people are already struggling to afford food for their families.”
The commission said the Government should “do all it can” to reverse a rise in child poverty. “It needs to go much further. We now need a much more ambitious programme to combat child poverty.’’
Hundreds of businesses and several local authorities have stepped in to offer free meals to youngsters during half- term.
Conservative- led Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council said that it would be providing food parcels for families, tweeting:
“No child should go hungry.’’
Yesterday the PM faced more embarrassment as Rashford, 22, called out Government claims the pair had been in recent touch over the footballer’s plan.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock told BBC Breakfast there “has been communication between the two”.
But Rashford tweeted: “Hmm, unless he’s referring to the call we had following the u- turn in June?’’
The PM later admitted their last discussion was four months ago.