May's manifesto pledge on free school breakfasts 'undercosted'

Costs would far exceed Tory estimate of £60m a year, with a 20% takeup costing more than £170m, analysis findsConservative promises to plug the hole in school budgets could be ruined by its manifesto offer of free breakfasts for primary school pupils, after researchers found the policy would cost far more than the party claimed.Figures compiled by the Education Datalab thinktank showed that even if only one in five of England’s 3.6 million primary school pupils ate just 25p wor