The chancellor @RishiSunak insists he is not blocking the provision of free school meals over the holidays including Christmas. What is striking is that his billionaire father-in-law NR Narayan Murthy has spoken of “our responsibility to ensure every kid is fed properly”...

And more than that, Murthy is a supporter of an important Indian charity Akshaya Patra, which works to “end classroom poverty in India” - as is his wife Sudha, Sunak’s mother-in-law, who “actively facilitates the mid-day meal programme” (see attached). The reason I...

mention this is that the impressive Indian charity has just opened a kitchen in Watford and has just started delivering free meals to a school in North London (see @guardian https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/oct/27/indian-child-poverty-charity-offers-free-school-meals-in-uk?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other). In other words a charity backed by Sunak’s family is helping...

to feed poor hungry children in the UK when the government of which Sunak is a member has been resisting @MarcusRashford’s campaign to extend its provision of free school meals.