Lord Griffiths on Free School Meals Crisis: Boris Johnson Doesn’t Understand Poverty!

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Lord Griffiths of Burry Port about the Free School Meals crisis where the government has not extended free school meals across school holidays, despite the economic crisis caused by Coronavirus, meaning 1 million children could go hungry. He discusses why old Etonians such as Boris Johnson don’t understand poverty, his own experience growing up in poverty and his need for free school meals as a child, the rising popularity of Marcus Rashford who is leading the campaign to get food to hungry children, the growing use of food banks and charity organisations by families to get food, the impacts of austerity over the last 10 years and much more!