Rachel said in her platitudinous Spending Review speech:
“Because of the decisions we have made in this spending review and working with my RHF the Education Secretary last week, this government announced that Free School Meals will be extended to over half a million more children. That policy alone will lift 100,000 children out of poverty. Children in schools from Tower Hamlets to Sunderland to Swansea to Bridge End.”
The Chancellor may not be aware that Swansea is in Wales, which is not covered by DfE’s extension of Free School Meals. They are limited to England. It’s devolved…
Incidentally the Welsh government is launching its own review into Free School Meals. Maybe they should have told Rachel…
Shadow national security minister Alicia Kearns told Times Radio she would have put a precondition on a China trip if she were PM:
“I would have put a precondition that I was not going to go if I was prime minister, unless Jimmy Lai was coming home with me. I would also put a precondition in the six months leading up to the visit that I wanted a reduction in hostile acts against our country. But that’s not what we saw. And actually, in contrast, what we saw was clearly the Chinese Communist Party did put a precondition, which was that the new embassy in London had to be signed off. So why is it okay for China to set preconditions and to make very clear red lines about what they require for a visit, but we go without having put any ourselves?”