Jamie gets ‘bored’ by government rhetoric

Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has blasted the government’s progress on school food, claiming that he has “lost all hope of the government saving our kids”.

He told Jonathan Ross on his ITV show on Saturday: “They say they care but you have to put your hand in your pocket, you have to top-load investment now to fix the problem. It’s got to be a 10-year plan.

“You vote every four years and you have to make new friends. I have met six education secretaries and I have had enough, I am bored.”

Oliver is six years into his project to improve school dinners. He claims that half of schools are progressing significantly, but the rest are “struggling because they haven’t had the training or equipment”.