Education providers and organisations have responded to the Labour Party's pledge to introduce free breakfast clubs for all English primary schools with cautious optimism.
Shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson, today (28 September) announced her party's pledge to introduce breakfast clubs for every primary school in England, funded by returning the top income tax rate to 45 per cent after it was slashed to 40 per cent as part of Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng's mini budget.
Speaking at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool, Phillipson said that if it the Labour Party was elected it would rebuild the childcare system from "the end of parental leave right through to the end of primary school”, starting with the expansion of free school meals.
