Shameless Tory Children’s Minister tries to steal credit for Marcus Rashford’s school meals campaign
Brazen: Ford’s false claims are disproved by her own voting record.
How brazen can these Tories be?
Children’s Minister Vicky Ford has told Good Morning Britain viewers that she – not Marcus Rashford – was the person who got the government to extend free school meals into the holidays during the Covid-19 crisis, and who created lockdown meal vouchers.
She said she was not influenced by Rashford’s campaign at all.
Her claim has been ridiculed by those of us who can read Hansard, which shows that she voted against demands for such schemes – twice.
See for yourself:
That Vicky Ford? The one who voted against it? pic.twitter.com/cixRKlxlVt
— Achilles 🔰🌍🌎🌏 (@sureduck) March 25, 2021
Social media commentators have used the claim to make Ford a target for ridicule – and rightly so:
Vicky Ford publicly offers her thanks to Alan Turing for helping her break the Enigma code by doing some of the sums.
— Helen the Zen 🏴 💙 🍉 (@helenmallam) March 25, 2021
well done to Tory dementor Vicky Ford who apparently raised all the money for this year's Comic Relief by herself
— dave ❄️ 🥕 🧻 (@mrdavemacleod) March 25, 2021
Vicky Ford MP scoring a superb volley against Liverpool. pic.twitter.com/fHSBZRfxu4
— HENRY MORRIS (@mrhenrymorris) March 25, 2021
I want to know what Marcus Rashford – who received an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List last year for his services to vulnerable children in the UK during COVID-19, has to say about Ms Ford’s claims.
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Just another Tory lie. Expect more to come. Fascism on the rise. Be afraid.