LONDON, March 30 (UPI) -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair promised more spending as TV chef Jamie Oliver delivered petitions calling on schools to serve better meals to students.
Oliver met with Blair to hand over petitions with 271,000 signatures calling for improved food for British school children. Blair later said education would be his No. 1 priority with "no child written off or left behind," the Guardian reported Wednesday.
Oliver expressed cautious optimism about Blair's three-year, $526 million program to increase the minimum spent on school lunches to at least 95 cents.
The TV chef's intense effort to improve school food was credited for spurring Education Secretary Ruth Kelly's announcement of greater school funding and the first examination of British school nutritional standards in 20 years, the newspaper said.
