Oscar winner Kate Winslet hails Marcus Rashford for free school meals campaign

Oscar winner Kate Winslet was full of praise for Manchester United’s Marcus Rashford for his campaigning for vulnerable families during lockdown. 

The 25-year-old shared an open letter to the British government requesting that the free school meal campaign, which runs in schools across the country, continued throughout the summer holidays to help support families that need it.

It involves providing children and their parents with meals or vouchers to obtain food throughout the school term, but Rashford believed it should be extended as, at the time, families were struggling significantly more with the added pressure of Covid and lockdowns.

The England international was vocal about his own struggles as a child from a working-class, single-parent family, in which his mum relied on the service to feed Rashford and his siblings.

Kate Winslet’s admiration for Rashford

The Titanic star hailed Rashford for his efforts to help his country, she told BBC: “I was a free school meals kid – myself and all my siblings, we were free school meals children.