A former Conservative Party councillor has said he will not apologise after replying to a union email about school meals with the phrase “if you can't feed, don’t breed”.
Roger Taylor, now an independent councillor on Calderdale Council in West Yorkshire, sent the reply to a newsletter from the public services union Unison, which contained a request to help save the school meals service.
Mr Taylor – expelled from the Tory party last year following an Islamophobia investigation – said he believed it was up to parents to feed their children during the holidays.
“Many of these so-called impoverished children have smart phones,” the councillor claimed.
Unison, which had referenced the recent campaign by Manchester United star Marcus Rashford to tackle child food poverty, said it was “beyond belief that someone could show so little compassion”.