Owatemi’s main message was: “Food is not a luxury…

“We shouldn’t be here deciding on whether or not there should be a vote. The idea of free school meals should never have been something that we put to a vote. It should be something that we actually work together, across the opposite bench and actually say, ‘let’s provide the opportunity for our constituents, let’s give them the ability to achieve their full potential, to be able to not worry about food, not to worry about the issues that are going on.’

“They’re already dealing with Covid-19, they don’t need to deal with whether or not they’re going to have food.”

And that’s the main point: whatever your politics are, this is about families knowing they will always have food on the table. As Rashford succinctly put it in his statement to the government: “This is not about politics this is about humanity.”

Free school meals: why Taiwo Owatemi’s viral speech is so important