Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford is considered to be better at holding Boris Johnson’s Government to account than the Labour Party according at least to a poll released this morning.
Rashford who has campiagned against food poverty and has forced the Government into embarrassing U-turns is thought by more than half of Britons aged 18-75 (56%) to be doing a good job at holding the government to account over its Coronavirus response.
Around three in 10 (29%) believe the Keir Starmer is doing well, however opinion is split with a further 28% saying he is doing a bad job at holding the Government to account over their response to Coronavirus.
Ben Page, CEO of Ipsos MORI, says: “More people feel Marcus Rashford – a 23-year old footballer – is holding the government to account than are the opposition, Conservative backbenchers or indeed the media itself.
“He is helped by the fact that he is campaigning on a simple issue – free school meals – that neatly encapsulates the sharpened inequalities that Covid-19 has revealed.”
