With the moral authority of a peer from a poor working class background who recalls hungry school holidays, Leslie Griffiths, Lord Griffiths of Burry Port, shames aloof Boris Johnson.
He’s right that successful men from humble beginnings like him and campaigning footballer Marcus Rashford, who relied on free school meals, know in their bodies as well as minds why we must feed kids during weeks and months outside school.
The former President of the Methodist Church is also right that Old Etonians such as Johnson can’t be expected to have had the same experience. The tragedy is this PM’s inability to relate to those less fortunate than himself and give them a helping hand.
Britain celebrates people doing well but also demands they show concern for the less lucky. Rashford and Labour peer Griffiths do that.
Boris Johnson shamefully doesn’t.
Give them jobs
Youth unemployment is soaring to levels last endured during the Margaret Thatcher era, creating another generation betrayed by a Tory Government.
Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown has warned about this impending disaster and the half-hearted responses from Chancellor Rishi Sunak and the PM are unforgivable.
Dumping the young on scrap heaps, denying them jobs and proper training, will blight their lives and leave them entitled to be angry.
Nobody disputes the coronavirus is an unprecedented crisis but we need a govern- ment up to the challenge of saving livelihoods.
If we don’t invest in the young the human and financial costs will be enormous.
A sour note
It's brave of Katherine Jenkins to admit publicly that her children wish she’d keep her singing to herself.
Because the one-time regular at David Cameron’s glitzy parties when the Tory Premier was making life tougher for millions may find some people with agree with her kids.
