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UK does a U-turn, backs soccer star's child hunger campaign

by Pan Pylas
| November 8, 2020 3:33 AM

LONDON (AP) — The British government has made another abrupt about-face and now says it will provide free meals to disadvantaged children in England over the upcoming holidays following a hugely popular child hunger campaign by soccer star Marcus Rashford.

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