Ben Walker, New Statesman
Boris Johnson has U-Turned on providing free school meals for those eligible over the summer after a campaign led by footballer Marcus Rashford and pursued today in Parliament by Labour.
Full marks to Ben Walker at the New Statesman for compiling a list of the Parliamentary Constituencies and the percentage of pupils eligible for free school meals.
You should be able to look at the whole thing here:
Walker’s point is that one reason for the Tory U-Turn is that after the last Election the Tories now hold rather more seats with a high eligibilty than they did before- the Red Wall issue.
A more fundamental point does however strike me. Of the top 100 constituencies with the most pupils eligible for free school meals 78 are Labour held. A crude but interesting measure of class politics in 2020 if ever there was one.
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