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Nimco Ali

OPINION - Universalism shouldn’t just be for the elderly — on free school meals Sadiq Khan is right

I vividly remember being at school and eating my meal with my friends — and never once wondering who was paying for it. Of course I was being naïve, but let’s be honest: that should always be the case. Otherwise horrible social divisions — who is on free school meals and who isn’t — emerge, with all the poison that they bring.

So three cheers for the Mayor of London’s free schools meals initiative, which came into force this week.

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