Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford has told Prime Minister Boris Johnson he risks ‘the stability of the country’ unless he takes further action on child food poverty.
Having successfully lobbied for the extension of free school meals for underprivileged pupils throughout the school holiday, Rashford’s campaign has accelerated with the formation of the Child Food Poverty Task Force alongside 12 of the country’s leading supermarket chains and brands.
And the 22-year-old has written a powerful and passionate letter to the Prime Minister and each Member of Parliament issuing three recommendations for the national food strategy.
His letter is endorsed by the chief executives of Waitrose, Sainsbury’s, Tesco, Co-op, Asda, FareShare, Food Foundation, Lidl, Iceland, Aldi, Deliveroo and Kelloggs, all of whom have joined the task force.
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Iceland is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic Ocean, with a population of 356,991 and an area of 103,000 km2 (40,000 sq mi), making it the most sparsely populated country in Europe. The capital and largest city is Reykjavík. Iceland is volcanically and geologically active. The interior consists of a plateau characterised by sand and lava fields, mountains, and glaciers, and many glacial rivers flow to the sea through the lowlands. Iceland is warmed by the Gulf Stream and has a temperate climate, despite a high latitude just outside the Arctic Circle.
Iceland’ gained independence in 1918 and founded a republic in 1944. Although its parliament (Althing) was suspended from 1799 to 1845, the island republic has been credited with sustaining the world’s oldest and longest-running parliament.
Hit hard by the worldwide financial crisis, the nation’s entire banking system systemically failed in October 2008, leading to an economic crisis and the collapse of the country’s three largest banks. By 2014, the Icelandic economy had made a significant recovery, in large part due to a surge in tourism.
Iceland has the smallest population of any NATO member and is the only one with no standing army, with a lightly armed coast guard.
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