A Tory minister has boasted it's "great" that so many people are "interested" in child hunger after he refused to extend their free meal vouchers.
Grant Shapps made the bizarre claim after his government's actions were shamed by campaigning footballer Marcus Rashford. On a round of morning TV interviews, the Transport Secretary faced down anger over his failure to extend £15-a-week vouchers over the school holidays.
The poorest children in Wales and Scotland will continue getting the vouchers - which are a substitute for free school meals - in August.
But in England they'll be replaced with a more general £63m fund for councils to fund activities and help. In baffling exchanges Mr Shapps repeatedly said it was "great" the 22-year-old