Jacob Rees-Mogg accuses Unicef of stunt for campaign to feed UK children
Unicef said it will supply thousands of breakfast boxes over the two-week Christmas school holidays. By Press Association Friday 18 Dec 2020, 8:21 AM Dec 18th 2020, 8:21 AM 29,083 Views 64 Comments
Leader of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg.
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Leader of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg.
Image: Stefan Rousseau/PA Images
UNICEF SHOULD BE “ashamed” of itself for “playing politics” after the charity launched a campaign to feed UK children during the pandemic, Jacob Rees-Mogg has said.
The Commons Leader told MPs it was “a scandal” that the charity had said it would help feed 1,800 hungry children over Christmas for the first time in its 70-year history, calling the move “a political stunt of the l
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The charity said each box would provide enough food for 10 breakfasts across the Christmas holidays.
Labour’s Zarah Sultana raised the matter in Parliament.
“For the first time ever, Unicef, the UN agency responsible for providing humanitarian aid to children, is having to feed working-class kids in the UK, Ms Sultana said.
“But while children go hungry, a wealthy few enjoy obscene riches, from Tory donors handed billions in dodgy contracts to people like the Leader of the House, who is reportedly in line to receive an £800,000 dividend payout this year.
“So will he give government time to discuss the need to make him and his super-rich chums pay their fair share so that we can end the grotesque inequality that scars our society?”
School Food Matters and UNICEF UK join forces to feed families in Southwarkâ¯
The project will supply over 20,000 nutritious breakfasts over the two-week Christmas school holidays and the February half term to vulnerable children and families
ALL SMILES: School Food Matters Breakfast Boxes will be key over the holidays
THE CHARITY School Food Matters is to receive funding from Unicef UK to support children and families at risk of food insecurity during the coronavirus pandemic.
The grant represents the first time in its 70-year history that Unicef UK has moved to develop a UK domestic emergency response.
Food Power for Generationâ¯Covid is a joint initiative with Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming, which will help provide food for vulnerable children and their families by awarding grants to UK community projects like School Food Matters.
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