Busy Bridget’s Bogus Free School Meal Briefing Shot Down Instantly – Guido Fawkes

Busy Bridget’s Bogus Free School Meal Briefing Shot Down Instantly

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Bridget Phillipson has received a battering since reports that the DfE is proposing means-testing free school meals appeared. Sound policy…

The briefing was immediately shot down by the Treasury which identified it as a classic “bleeding stump” tactic of bogus overzealotry: “We were anticipating there would be some game-playing.” The claim is that Bridget is trying to make ground in the internal battle over spending cuts in government…

Now the education secretary has earned another immediate slapdown from Downing Street at today’s Lobby briefing: “This is not something we are looking at.” Starmer’s spokesman added that the Chancellor does not recognise claims the government is looking at a cut. Two rebukes within about twelve hours. Interesting politics from Phillipson ahead of the first McSweeney reshuffle. Desperate times?