Reeves’ Speech Wrongly Claims Welsh Children Will Get Free School Meals – Guido Fawkes

FACT CHECK: Reeves’ Speech Wrongly Claims Welsh Children Will Get Free School Meals

Rachel said in her platitudinous Spending Review speech:

“Because of the decisions we have made in this spending review and working with my RHF the Education Secretary last week, this government announced that Free School Meals will be extended to over half a million more children. That policy alone will lift 100,000 children out of poverty. Children in schools from Tower Hamlets to Sunderland to Swansea to Bridge End.”

The Chancellor may not be aware that Swansea is in Wales, which is not covered by DfE’s extension of Free School Meals. They are limited to England. It’s devolved…

Incidentally the Welsh government is launching its own review into Free School Meals. Maybe they should have told Rachel…