London mayor Sadiq Khan’s commitment to free school meals for primary school pupils will serve up kids a hot meal… and the chance of a better future.
London is following Labour in Wales and the SNP by extending provision of free meals.
The evidence is overwhelming – nutritious free school meals help children do better academically, reduce obesity and other health issues, and can increase their earning power.
Children across the UK should be benefitting from this. We know uncaring Tories won’t do anything, but why isn’t Labour promising to make universal free school meals a manifesto commitment to clinch a General Election and give Britain a fresh start?
It’s time to see the beef in Labour’s national offer to the British people. Keir Starmer deserves many plaudits for putting Labour on the path to power, but it will take compelling policies to secure enough votes at the election.
Labour must make a pledge to provide free school meals for all.
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Rishi Sunak’s do-nothing Conservative Government bears responsibility for junior doctors voting to strike in England.
The Tories’ failure to negotiate constructively with key workers is escalating pay disputes, particularly in the NHS, at the expense of patients and the country at large.
Every stoppage is another nail in the coffin of a party unfit to govern, its unelected PM heading an exhausted administration.
Britain deserves better and we urge ministers to sit down with junior doctors, nurses, ambulance crews and everybody else battling a biting cost of living crisis to find solutions.
If they refuse to negotiate meaningfully, voters will give their verdict at the ballot box.
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In 1985, Marty McFly, Doc Brown and a DeLorean sports car roared into cinemas and our hearts in Back To The Future.
Fast forward 38 years and the cast is together again in a sequel… called Blast from the Past.
