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We’ve heard more about the impact of EU withdrawal on the rights of the UK's 11,700 active fishermen, than about its impact on our 11.5million children, including the half a million non-British European national children living here (38% of whom were born here).
“Let them eat spam,” said someone on Twitter in response to the no-deal Brexit guidance on food for school meals in England, issued by the Department for Education last month. The guidance suggests that there are “significant flexibilities within the school food standards,” to accommodate change. There’s no mention of new funding, and it made less press than Theresa May’s mouldy jam, but the no-deal statement is clear, “where the pupil meets the criteria for free school meals, the meal must be provided, free of charge.”
