At the end of next year little Poppy, the seven-year-old from Liverpool whose engaging plea for Rishi Sunak to introduce free school meals was on the front of last Friday’s Daily Mirror, may need to write again, this time to Keir Starmer.
Because Labour’s Prime Minister-in-waiting is, unfortunately, as unappetisingly opposed to feeding all primary pupils as the cold-hearted rich Conservative he’s poised to replace in No 10.
Universal free school meals is not Labour Party policy, trilled a spokesman. Then why not? This is a cause that goes to the heart of what Labour stands for and the fairer, more decent country we could be.
