Top Tory Michael Gove has piled pressure on Liz Truss to extend free school meals provision to stop kids from going hungry.
The Conservative former Education Secretary said all primary pupils should get free school dinners "in an ideal world", in a major boost to the Mirror and NEU campaign to broaden the scheme.
As rising food and fuel bills push hard-pressed Brits to the brink, Mr Gove urged Liz Truss's Government to extend free school meals to all children in Universal Credit households right now.
This would provide targeted support to around 1.5million more children, according to estimates by the Children's Society.
