"The British government on Thursday criticized the United Nation's children's fund (UNICEF) for what it described as a 'political stunt of the lowest order' after the organization pledged money for food boxes in the U.K.
UNICEF plans to give a £25,000 (or nearly $40,000) grant to the School Food Matters charity, which said it will use the money to provide breakfast boxes to schools over Christmas in south London.
Leader of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg reacted angrily to the news.
'I think it's a real scandal that UNICEF should be playing politics in this way when it is meant to be looking after people in the poorest and most deprived countries in the world where people are starving, where there are famines, and where there are civil wars,' he said in the Commons.
'And they make cheap political points of this kind, giving, I think, £25,000 to one council -- it is a political stunt of the lowest order.'
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The move by UNICEF was immediately used by the government's opponents, who accused leaders of neglecting 'hungry children.'
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Later, he responded to a question about the kidnapping of 300 children in Nigeria, adding: 'You do wonder that UNICEF might think a bit more about this than faffing around in England.'..."