It is quite an achievement – as the commentator Dan Hodges noted this week – for the British government to be spending such mind boggling sums of money on the Covid crisis and still to be under fire for penny-pinching. Yet that is the situation on the question of free school meals for children in poverty.
Years of budget deficits have bloated the government’s debt pile
All developed economies face the same problem: how to manage the ever-rising tide of welfare and medical spending.