Zayn Malik calls on PM Rishi Sunak to extend free school meals amid cost-of-living crisis: ‘I personally experienced the stigma surrounding food insecurity’

The letter was supported by The Meals Basis (Image: PA|Getty Pictures)

Zayn Malik has urged Rishi Sunak to ‘give all kids dwelling in poverty’ a free faculty meal amid the cost-of-living disaster.

The previous One Path singer, 29, wrote a letter outlining how the Prime Minister ought to use his November finances to increase the eligibility threshold.

He needed the free meals to grow to be accessible to younger individuals from households on Common Credit score.

An envoy for the Meals Basis and robust supporter of its Feed The Future marketing campaign, Zayn relied on free faculty lunches himself whereas rising up in Bradford.

In his plea to the PM, he wrote: ‘These kids are affected by lack of focus, some even resorting to stealing meals from faculty canteens as a result of they're so hungry however can’t afford to purchase lunch.

‘They're additionally feeling disgrace which is straight impacting their bodily and psychological well being.

Zayn Malik wrote a plea to the brand new PM over lack of free faculty meals (Image: PA)

The singer revealed he relied on faculty dinners whereas rising up in Bradford (Image: Raymond Corridor/GC Pictures)

‘I do know what that disgrace looks like, I've seen it first-hand, as rising up in Bradford, I relied on free faculty meals. I personally skilled the stigma surrounding meals insecurity.’

Persevering with on, he expressed his hopes to scale back the unfairness surrounding the free meal scheme: ‘My hope is that in penning this letter we will all be sure that no little one ever has to expertise this starvation and stigma once more as my expertise just isn't distinctive; it's a wrestle that many kids in England are sadly going by proper now.’

In response to the Meals Basis, round 800,000 kids in England reside in poverty however don’t qualify to eat at no cost at college.

Zayn is a father himself and shares a toddler with mannequin Gigi Hadid (Image: Raymond Corridor/GC Pictures)

The Nightfall Until Daybreak hitmaker emphasised that many mother and father are ‘already doing every part they will’ and that Authorities help is ‘desperately wanted’.

Addressing the lately elected chief he added: ‘As Prime Minister, you have got the ability to vary this.

‘Please act in good conscience and commit in your Funds on seventeenth November to giving all kids dwelling in poverty a free faculty meal.

‘Youngsters going hungry just isn't inevitable and mustn't come all the way down to a political difficulty or ideology.’

Zayn is the newest addition to an inventory of well-known faces which are supporting campaigns to get wider entry to free faculty meals, becoming a member of celeb chef Jamie Oliver and England soccer star Marcus Rashford.