A number of restaurants, cafes and pubs across the country are banning MPs who voted against providing free school meals to disadvantaged children throughout the school holidays.
The Marina Fountain pub in St Leonards and Ridleys Coffee in Crawley have both barred their local MPs over their votes.
It follows the government's decision to extend free school meals to eligible children during the Easter holidays earlier this year.
A campaign by footballer Marcus Rashford also pushed the government to do so during the summer holidays.
Rashford's petition calling for an end to child food poverty through a number of recommendations has gained nearly 950,000 signatures.
However, MPs rejected a Labour motion to offer free school meals during holidays until Easter 2021 last week, by 322 votes to 261.
Eleven Sussex MPs voted against the motion, with just two voting for the motion.
Hove Labour MP Peter Kyle also voted for the motion.
Dear Sally-Ann Hart MP, we would like to follow suit of some of our fellow publicans and offer this message of...
Posted by Marina Fountain on Sunday, October 25, 2020
Here's the Sussex MPs, who are all Conservative, who voted against it:
Lewes MP Maria Caulfield
Wealden MP Nusrat Ghani
Hastings and Rye MP Sally-Ann Hart
Bexhill and Battle MP Huw Merriman
Arundel and South Downs MP Andrew Griffith
Bognor and Littlehampton MP Nick Gibb
Chichester MP Gillian Keegan
Crawley MP Henry Smith
West Worthing MP Peter Bottomley
Horsham MP Jeremy Quin
Mid Sussex MP Mims Davies
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