Sunderland Echo

Rashford started the ball rolling

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England and Manchester United star became known for food poverty campaignin­g during the pandemic by forcing a Government U-turn on offering free school meal vouchers over the summer holidays.

The 23-year-old has drawn widespread praise for highlighti­ng the issue, with his campaignin­g also resulting in the Government back-tracking to announce free meals would be provided to disadvanta­ged children over the Christmas holidays too.

He described the food offerings shown in pictures that emerged this week as "just not good enough" and called for the system to be fixed "quickly".

His campaignin­g saw him become an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours list.

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