US News Jamie Oliver Slams Theresa May’s Plans To Scrap Free Meals For Infants

© Provided by Huffington Post Jamie Oliver has branded Theresa May's plans to scrap free school meals for infants a 'disgrace' Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has reacted with fury to the news that Theresa May plans to scrap free school meals for infant pupils if she wins the election.

At present, the government subsidises each school lunch to a cost of £2.30, so removing the free lunches means working families will have to find around £480 extra per child a year, though the Conservative manifesto states means-tested families will still get free school meals.

The manifesto claims some of the money saved by the move will be used to provide free breakfasts for all primary-age children.

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Prime minister says her Christian faith helped her through deaths of parents.The Tory leader, who has been on the campaign trail ahead of the 8 June polling date, gave a rather personal insight into her life when quizzed on LBC Radio.

Jamie Oliver Slams Theresa May ’ s Plans To Scrap Free Meals For Infants .

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Tory pledge to scrap tolls for motorists using Severn Crossings

Conservatives expect the change to boost the local economy by around £100 million annually. .@theresa_may and her team of @Conservatives will abolish the tolls on the Severn Crossings delivering a £100m boost to the economy #GE2017 pic.twitter.com/qWz7qVFFsH— Welsh Conservatives (@WelshConserv) May 16, 2017The Prime Minister said abolishing the tolls would drive growth on both sides of the Severn.She said: “I want to ensure that our economic progress is shared across the United Kingdom.“By abolishing tolls for 25 million annual journeys between two nations, we will strengthen the links between communities.

Now Theresa May is similarly accused of meanness over plans to reverse the policy of free school meals for all infants (that is, for five- to seven-year-olds), which was introduced under the coalition government in 2013. Cue another outraged intervention into public life from Jamie Oliver .

Now Theresa May is similarly accused of meanness over plans to reverse the policy of free school meals for all infants (that is, for five- to seven-year-olds), which was introduced under the coalition government in 2013. Cue another outraged intervention into public life from Jamie Oliver .

The healthy food campaigner said: “We’ve already seen the Childhood Obesity Strategy ripped to shreds, now Theresa May and her government have decided to remove free school lunches from millions of primary children.

“This is a disgrace. It’s a fact that children perform better after eating a decent lunch.

© Provided by Huffington Post Theresa May with eight-year-old Akaal Singh at Nishkam Primary School in Birmingham “This move shows a complete lack of understanding of all the data that’s been shared and puts our future generations at huge risk, as well as further undermining our teachers who benefit from well-fed kids.”

Last year Oliver, a father-of-five slammed May’s Childhood Obesity Plan, accusing her of coming up with “the same old bull that hasn’t worked for 20 years.”

He told the Radio Times: “Everything about the childhood obesity strategy that’s just come out is a complete stinking herring. It’s a terrible job Theresa May’s done there – unforgivable.

“She’s completely let down every child in Britain, let parents down, everyone’s been let down.”

Oliver led a failed campaign to ban unhealthy sweets from supermarket checkouts and limit junk food adverts, but has been a powerful advocate of healthy eating. The 41-year-old was awarded an MBE for services to the hospitality industry in 2003.