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Andy Mitten

'Boris wants to talk’: How Marcus Rashford kept the former prime minister waiting in 2020

Marcus Rashford and Boris Johnson in 2020

Marcus Rashford made the UK government sit up and take notice in 2020, the Manchester United forward's food poverty campaign culminating in a phone call with then-prime minister Boris Johnson. 

After being appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in October that year, Rashford began a petition to end child food poverty, with demands made for expansion of the free school meals programme. 

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