Zayn Malik has called on Rishi Sunak to “give all children living in poverty” free school meals during the cost of living crisis.
The former One Direction singer, 29, who relied on free school lunches as a child growing up in Bradford, recently became an ambassador for the Food Foundation and is backing its Feed the Future campaign.
Malik has written to the prime minister, urging him to use the government’s November budget to extend the threshold for free school meals to include young people from families on universal credit.
He is the latest famous person to support wider access to free school meals, joining the England footballer Marcus Rashford and the chef Jamie Oliver.
In his letter, the singer writes: “These children are suffering from lack of concentration, some even resorting to stealing food from school canteens because they are so hungry but can’t afford to buy lunch.
