Theresa May - Lunch Snatcher

Liberal Democrat campaigners have reacted angrily to news that the Conservative manifesto will announce that the Tories intend to scrap universal free school meals.

Sarah Olney, Liberal Democrat Education spokesperson, said:

"Margaret Thatcher was known as the 'milk snatcher'. Theresa May will go down as the "lunch snatcher". Children under Theresa May will go hungry: it is that stark, and that heartless. But she just doesn't care."

"Giving infants free school meals was a major achievement of the Liberal Democrats in the coalition government, and we have committed in our manifesto to ensuring that every child in primary school will be guaranteed at least one proper meal a day.

Supporting this stance NW Hampshire parliamentary candidate Alex Payton added

"The Tories are taking food from our children to fund their economic incompetence.We would reverse Theresa May's cuts to school-funding. We want to give all our children a brighter future in a fairer Britain where people are decent to each other, with good schools and hospitals, a clean environment and an innovative economy. Not Theresa May's cold, mean-spirited Britain."