Conservative MP David Morris questions stories of rickets and hungry children, saying claims are from schools ‘with links to leftwing group Momentum’

A row is brewing between a Conservative MP and some of his Lancashire constituents after he suggested that claims by teachers about extreme Poverty at local schools were untrue.

A report by ITV earlier this week went viral after it showed schools where teachers said they had to wash their pupil’s uniforms because their families couldn’t afford to pay the electric bills.

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