Leeds Mumtaz offers free meals to schoolchildren after MPs vote against Marcus Rashford's bid to extend free school meals over the holidays

Labour’s motion, which called for the scheme to be extended over school holidays until Easter 2021, was defeated by 261 votes to 322 – majority 61 - on Wednesday, October 21.

Following the vote, Manchester United forward Rashford vowed to continue campaigning, writing on Twitter: “For as long as they don’t have a voice, they will have mine.”