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If by "ignorant" you mean that I don't know what people are spending their money on that's more important than their children's breakfast, then you're quite right. I do not know why some children are not getting food when they need it. Are you equally ignorant of the reason, or do you know...

Look on the bright side. Labour's flagship policy on VAT charges on education (some aspects of it, anyway) wouldn't have been possible without Brexit because the EU doesn't allow VAT on education.

True, but how much of that is because people have been given imaginary unlimited funds to do it? It would be interesting to do a similar poll without the "if you can afford it" proviso. Similar results, or significantly different? Who knows?

How can they be so certain that Tesla (which is planning expansion into Europe) doesn't want to put part of its expansion into the UK? Is it because they do not want Musk's companies to be established in the UK, or is it because they know the conditions are already such that he certainly won't...

Probably is. But I like bread like that.

OK, I withdraw any suggestion about what went on in the past or whether people were poorer or richer then. It is only tangentially relevant. The question is, why are people sending children to school without breakfast? Is it lack of funds or is it something else? If it's lack of funds, then a...

Then prove it. Show me a budget whereby a family is unable to find the 20p a day that it would cost them to give a child breakfast. Child poverty was much more a thing when benefits were far less generous than they are now, so what has gone wrong? I'm not saying it can't be done. You may be...

Five combustion engine vehicles actually. Total capital cost £22k for (to date) 35 years' motoring. I could probably have saved money by getting a Sinclair C5 and its successors, but it's not comparing like with like.

To be accurate, Labour governments abolished free milk for secondary and infant schools and Conservative governments abolished free milk for junior schools.

I donate a lot more than that to food banks, but they're in Africa where children (believe it or not) are even poorer than here. Fifty years ago if children were coming to school hungry, it was because of bad parenting, not bad government. Same question - what are parents spending money on...

I agree. Kompany at Burnley tried to play lke Manchester City, without realising that that means someone has to play lke Haaland, someone has to play like Rhodri, someone has to play like de Bruyne, and so forth. (Also, he never tried to stop the defence leaking silly goals.)

You're certainly not going to convince me with fake reports.

Bread and jam is a far more nutritious breakfast than nothing at all. If people are sending their children to school without breakfast because they think bread and jam is worse than nothing at all, then (like I said earlier) there are problems other than poverty. It's a simple question If...

Kingsmill from Farmfoods usually have a week or so sell-by date, and Tesco own brand super seeded usually has 4 or 5 days if you look at the back of the shelf.

There is lots of information, but never yet have I seen a genuine case study showing exactly what a family's incomings and outgoings are and why they can't get hold of (whether paid for or via food banks) a loaf of bread and pot of jam for the child's breakfast. You seldom heard of children...

I admire your persistence and thanks for all the figures. But even on the assumption that buying a 10-year-old electric car will result in no more than £840 total repairs plus MOT over the next 6 years, the saving of £400 per year is not worth it. (I can't believe that there will be no new...

Show me a genuine family budget where full benefits are being received, where £1.50 per week could not be cut from other spending for a child's breakfast.

Why have you quoted a report that states that the referendum result would have been valid even if the referendum had been statutory and not advisory? Why not quote the report that your headline is from instead? The report you quote does not mention Russia at all and does not have that quote...

If poorer families are sending children to school with no breakfast, there are problems way beyond poverty. Two slices of bread and jam can be had for about 20p; so can a bowl of porridge.

I think you've been misinformed. Google finds nothing. Have you got a link?