Scotch egg rule ridiculed as Govt left with egg on its face
A Scotch egg please guv... and 15 pints.
A Scotch egg please guv... and 15 pints.
The snack would constitute a “substantial meal” under the rules which will only allow alcohol to be served with food in Tier 2 areas from Wednesday.
Getting an answer was described as being "like nailing jelly to the wall" on social media after.
David Lammy - Labour’s shadow justice secretary - said it was “totally scandalous and should be on every newspaper’s front page”.
Billions of pounds have been handed out in an opaque process that has every appearance of having been politically motivated – a cross-party committee found.
"How much longer can we let these cowardly kowtowing Ministers get away with using money they know is long since spent by many local councils to justify their decision to let more than a million children go hungry during the holidays?"
Tory MPs said they "did not believe in nationalising children" ahead of the vote, with one saying children have been going hungry "for years".
MPs rejected the motion by a majority of 61.
The clip fuels allegations of cronyism within the current administration.
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