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Marcus Rashford scores on every front page…. bar one

Marcus Rashford’s successful campaign to have school meals continue through summer leads on all but one of Wednesday’s front pages.

The Guardian led the way on Boris Johnson’s “humbling u-turn” on providing free school meals to impoverished children through the summer.

The Daily Mirror hails Mr Rashford’s victory under a headline of “Back of the net”.

Metro riffs on England’s most famous piece of football commentary, saying: “They thought free schools meals were all over, they’re not now!”

The Daily Star pokes some more fun, saying Rashford should have Mr Johnson’s job.

And the i leads with the same story under a headline of “Rashford 1, Johnson 0”.

Indeed only one national newspaper didn’t lead with the story – no prizes for guessing which one that is:

Related: Britain basks in Rashford’s victory – but Mail readers are livid

Jack Peat

Jack is a business and economics journalist and the founder of The London Economic (TLE). He has contributed articles to VICE, Huffington Post and Independent and is a published author. Jack read History at the University of Wales, Bangor and has a Masters in Journalism from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

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