The party’s education spokesman, Munira Wilson, will also advocate for the creation of a national organization for special educational needs and disabilities, or SEND, in her keynote address at the party’s convention in Brighton on Sunday.
Reextending free school lunches would give “more pupils a full stomach each lunchtime,” according to Ms. Wilson, the Twickenham MP since 2019. This would result in “better academic progress, better behavior and concentration, better health outcomes.”
A constituent “who told me that she stopped buying her medication so that her daughter at college could afford some lunch” is the tale she is expected to tell.
There are tales of students acting as though they are eating from empty lunchboxes in order to conceal from their peers that there is nothing to eat at home. That’s not acceptable in contemporary Britain,” she’ll probably respond.
“Every child in poverty would receive a free school lunch, filling the bellies of 900,000 more students each lunchtime. Better behavior and focus, improved academic achievement, and improved health outcomes are all implied by this. Labour, however, has said nothing.
