TORY minister Jacob Rees-Mogg blasted Unicef yesterday, accusing the global humanitarian agency of acting shamefully, after they moved to help feed poor kids in London. Earlier this week, the UN body launched a domestic emergency response in the UK for the first time in its more than 70-year history, promising £25,000 to the community project School Food Matters. The money will be used to supply 18,000 nutritious breakfasts to 25 schools in South London over the two-week Christmas holidays and February half-term. Anna Kettley, the director of programmes at Unicef UK, said the emergency response was “introduced to tackle the unprecedented impact of the coronavirus crisis and reach the families most in need.”
Unicef should be “ashamed” of itself for “playing politics” after the charity launched a campaign to feed UK children during the pandemic, Jacob Rees-Mogg has said.
The Commons Leader told MPs it was “a scandal” that the charity had said it would help feed 1,800 hungry children over Christmas for the first time in its 70-year history, calling the move “a political stunt of the lowest order”.
The attack followed the announcement by Unicef on Wednesday that it would pledge a grant of £25,000 to the charity School Food Matters which will use the money to supply thousands of breakfast boxes over the two-week Christmas school holidays to vulnerable children and families in Southwark, south London.
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The British government on Thursday criticized the United Nation’s children’s fund (UNICEF) for what it described as a political stunt of the lowest order after the organization pledged money for food boxes in the U.K.
UNICEF plans to give a £25,000 (or nearly $40,000) grant to the School Food Matters charity, which said it will use the money to provide breakfast boxes to schools over Christmas in south London.
Leader of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg reacted angrily to the news. I think it s a real scandal that UNICEF should be playing politics in this way when it is meant to be looking after people in the poorest and most deprived countries in the world where people are starving, where there are famines, and where there are civil wars, he said in the Commons.
Unicef should be “ashamed” of itself for “playing politics” after the charity launched a campaign to feed UK children during the pandemic, Jacob Rees-Mogg has said.
The Commons Leader told MPs it was “a scandal” that the charity had said it would help feed 1,800 hungry children over Christmas for the first time in its 70-year history, calling the move “a political stunt of the lowest order”.
The attack followed the announcement by Unicef on Wednesday that it would pledge a grant of £25,000 to the charity School Food Matters which will use the money to supply thousands of breakfast boxes over the two-week Christmas school holidays to vulnerable children and families in Southwark, south London.
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