Spare pasta & tomato. Will need mayo for pasta salad.
Issued instead of £30 vouchers. I could do more with £30 to be honest. pic.twitter.com/87LGUTHXEu
After widespread outrage, campaigning by Monroe and an intervention by the footballer and activist Marcus Rashford, the government has performed a U-turn on the food parcels.
The issue was raised Wednesday (13 January) during Prime Minister’s Questions, and Boris Johnson described the food parcel images as “disgraceful”.
But when Labour leader Keir Starmer read out Department for Education guidance for an example food parcel, the list was strikingly similar.
Starmer said the guidance suggests that a parcel to provide lunches for one child for five days would include “one loaf of bread, two baked potatoes, block of cheese, baked beans, three individual yoghurts”.