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Opposition figures brutalized the government after Tory MPs voted against footballer Marcus Rashford’s proposal to provide free school meals to eligible children during the upcoming holidays

Labor’s motion, which called for the program to be extended during school holidays until Easter 2021, was rejected by 261 votes to 322 – majority 61

Deputy Labor leader Angela Rayner said the Conservatives voted to let more than 4 million children eligible for free school meals go hungry during the holidays

I voted for workers facing difficulties in areas under confinement to get 80% of their income

« Tonight I voted to feed the vulnerable and needy children of our country The Conservatives voted to let them go hungry, » she tweeted, adding, « I voted for that workers facing difficulties in areas under confinement get 80% of their income The Conservatives voted against That’s all you need to know « 

« I don’t know how the 322 Conservative MPs sleep tonight Because I can’t, knowing that 14 million kids like Cameron will be hungry this Christmas, » she said, referring to a boy featured in a documentary she shared

She added: « Rishi Sunak spent £ 500million on the ‘Eat Out to Help’ program It costs around £ 20million to provide free school meals for a week There is money for the Nando at half the price, but there is no money to feed the children? ”

Liberal Democrat health and welfare spokesperson Munira Wilson tweeted: « It would be extremely unfair for this government to allow children to go hungry this winter, especially in the midst of a pandemic I urged the government to follow the lead of Lib Dem Minister Edu Kirsty Williams in Wales by extending #FreeSchoolMeals during school holidays »

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Former Labor Minister Dame Joan Ruddock tweeted: ‘I don’t understand how Conservative MPs can justify denying children from poorer families a decent meal every day of the holiday School meals are known to be essential to the health of & well-being of these children & there is no substitute They are going to be hungry – such cruelty « 

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Richard Burgon of Labor said the Tories had shown they didn’t care children were going to go hungry

“I’m disgusted by what just happened in Parliament,” he tweeted “Conservative MPs just voted against extending free school meals over the Christmas break They know that will mean that a million children will go hungry They don’t care A sickening demonstration of the Conservatives’ contempt for the people of our communities « 

Nottingham MP Ben Bradley engaged in a Twitter exchange with Rashford, writing: ‘Government has a lot of responsibilities: supporting the vulnerable, helping people help themselves, balancing accounts

« It’s not as easy as you to understand Marcus The extension of WFTU to schools shifts the responsibility of feeding children away from parents, to the state It increases dependency »

Rashford tweeted back: “Well the economy is already paying a high price for child hunger If children were properly fed you would increase education and your chances in life @KelloggsUKI calculated that we would spend at least £ 2million lost teaching hours per year as teachers take care of starving children

« And for a more humane response, since March, 32% of families have suffered a drop in income Almost a million people have fallen in payrolls It’s not an addiction, it’s a call help There are no jobs !! 250% increase in food poverty and No one said it was easy… ”

Well the economy is already paying a heavy price for child hunger If children were properly fed you would increase education and your chances in life @KelloggsUKI calculated that we would spend at least £ 5 2 million teaching hours lost per year as teachers deal with starving children https: // tco / mZTI3YFYz7

Child Poverty Action Group chief executive Alison Garnham said Britain has « hit a low point if, in the midst of a pandemic, we decide we can’t make sure the children of the low income families have a nutritious meal in the middle of the day « 

« Tonight’s vote means more children go without and more desperately anxious parents – just as a coronavirus winter approaches, » Ms Garnham told the Daily Mirror

« This will not suit all those people from all walks of life who support Marcus Rashford because they no longer want child poverty ignored »

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