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The right to food must be enshrined into law, campaigners demand at TWT 2022
First minister Mark Drakeford serves lunch to reception class student Jayden-Luke Davies, 4, during a visit to Ysgol Y Preseli in Pembrokeshire, to begin the roll-out of universal free school meals for primary school children.

THE right to food must be enshrined in British law, campaigners demanded today as new figures show a dramatic surge in online searches for local foodbanks. 

Foodbanks are on their knees, with the majority struggling to meet the huge need of people going hungry, right to food campaigner Carl Walker told a meeting in Liverpool. 

Mr Walker, who is also the deputy leader of Worthing council, said a local foodbank he helped to set up is now feeding up to 500 people a week, up from just 14 families two years ago.

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