Cummings Government searches desperately for a reverse gear.

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Excuses: Ex-minister Nicky Morgan says they voted against, because a Labour MP was rude to a Tory MP in the House of Commons.

 

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Excuses: Ben Bradley says that meal vouchers would be spent on drugs and prostitutes

 

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Excuses: Tory Minister Paul Scully says "children have been going hungry for years".

 

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Excuses: Mark Jenkinson says "food parcels are sold or traded for drugs.”

 

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Excuses: Paul Holmes says it is "unfair" to paint Wednesday’s vote as a choice between feeding hungry children and not feeding hungry children

 

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Excuses: Danny Kruger says benefits "enrage people who are working hard for themselves."

 

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Excuses: Brandon Lewis says Local Authorities should do it.

 

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Excuses: Matt Hancock says Local Authorities have plenty of money to do it.

 

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Excuses: Doris is not saying.

 

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Excuses: Jeremy the Hunt says "UK had been “the most generous country anywhere in Europe, possibly the world”."

(this is not true)

 

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Excuses: Brendan Clarke-Smith says he does “not believe in nationalising children”

he says that asking to feed hungry children is "celebrity virtue signalling"

 

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Excuses: Jacob Young said he's heard rumours that vouchers are being spent on on alcohol, tobacco or on unhealthy food.

Ben Bradley also thinks this "often" happens.

 

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Excuses: Gary Sambrook says children don't need feeding now because they were fed during term-time.

 

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Excuses: Steve Baker says he voted against feeding children because he wants to see UC increased.