Government sources said a further extension of the protections was ‘completely off the table’ given the expected cost to the Treasury. Chancellor Rachel Reeves has been resisting calls from Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson to extend transitional protections again.

Well, we can’t waste money feeding kids now, can we? Scrounging kids, stealing yachts out of the mouths of poor starving billionaires. And of course Rachel Reeves, the same embodiment of pure evil who wants to cut disability benefits to levels nobody can survive on, is refusing pleas to keep feeding these kids.