Manchester United's Marcus Rashford has said he was disappointed by the British government's "lack of empathy" over calls to help tackle hunger among children. The England international forward formed a taskforce with major food brands to help tackle child food poverty, writing an open letter to parliament endorsing three policy recommendations of the National Food Strategy earlier this month. The points included expanding free school meals to children whose families are on universal credit, expanding holiday provision to all children on free school meals, and increasing the value of Healthy Start vouchers. But Rashford said that the written response from Education Secretary Gavin Williamson only listed the government's existing child poverty policies. Letting millions of children in the UK go hungry at night is only an issue of humanity.

Source: The Star September 26, 2020 15:00 UTC