Marcus Rashford laughed off Matt Hancock accidentally calling him “Daniel” during an interview this morning.
The Manchester United footballer, 22, appeared on Good Morning Britain via phone as he spoke to Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid.
“I want to thank you guys,” he said over highlighting his campaign to ensure free school meals were provided to underprivileged children over the summer.
He went on to speak about his own experience, which led him to spearhead the campaign.
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“It was something we spoke about a lot as a family,” he said. “You see the effect it has around you and the ones around you, it’s not nice to see your mum stressed.
“I just wanted to change it as much as I could.”
“It seems to me that it shouldn’t be just for these 6 weeks,” Piers pointed out. “You have the power to affect real change.”
“We have to keep it going,” Marcus agreed. “The numbers are really shocking and that was what really drove me… I just don’t see the reason why kids shouldn’t have food on the table.”
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He also spoke about how Prime Minister Boris Johnson phoned him yesterday.
“He actually rang me and it was actually a nice conversation because I wanted to thank him for changing his decision,” he explained. “I genuinely feel like there will be change. But yeah I’m looking forward.”
Piers then pointed out that the Health Secretary had appeared on Sky News earlier and called him “Daniel”, but Marcus just laughed over the slip-up.
The government’s boycott of Good Morning Britain reached 50 days today so Piers and Susanna Reid referred to other interviews Matt Hancock had done today.
“He just thanked a footballer for driving a government u-turn on 1.3million kids,” Piers said. “Do you know what he called him? He called him Daniel Rashford.
“It’s amazing, the Health Secretary bangs on [saying], ‘Footballers you’ve got to do your bit’. Then when one steps up he can’t even remember his name.”
Matt Hancock has since apologised for the blunder.
Earlier, GMB aired a number of clips from the MP’s damning interview from March – one of which showing the Health Secretary confirming that he had received ‘a lot’ of advice to stop flights from China… but chose not to listen.
He was also seen saying that he had chosen to continue shaking hands.
“No wonder Matt Hancock doesn’t want to talk to us,” Piers quipped.
Opening the show today, Piers began by mocking Boris Johnson by mimicking his voice, saying: “We all ridiculed Boris Johnson because ‘Oh I shook everyone’s hands in the pandemic.'”
He then went on to speak about Matt Hancock, who Piers said they were going to “re-interview” today because he was refusing to go onto the programme.
“On the March 3rd he did address whether he was shaking hands,” Piers said. “The Health Secretary, in the middle of the pandemic – here’s what he said.”
Piers was then seen asking Matt Hancock whether people should be shaking hands, and he replied: “I’ve taken the medical advice on that and the medical advice is that the impact of shaking hands is actually very small.
“What actually matters is that you wash your hands regularly, much more regularly than you normally would.”
Piers said afterwards: “A week later they changed their minds, like everything from testing… the quarantine and checking airports.”
Susanna Reid then pointed out that they had also asked the Health Secretary about travelling and mass gatherings.
“We’ve been very clear in following the science,” Matt Hancock had responded. “There are things that people say to me that we should do that the scientists say will not be effective.
“One of them is stopping the flights – advice I had from lots of people was ‘stop the flights from China’. There was only one European country that stopped the flights from China and that was Italy and they became the epicentre of the European outbreak.”
He also said: “Unless there is advice that a specific gathering is going to be high risk it should not be stopped because it causes huge disruption but it doesn’t have a scientific or epidemiological benefit in terms of slowing the virus.”
Reflecting on the clips, Piers said: “So keep washing your hands, keep having mass gatherings, keep flying around the world and don’t worry about coming back, there’s no problem.
“No wonder Matt Hancock doesn’t want to come on on this glorious 50th anniversary.”
*Good Morning Britain airs weekdays at 6am on ITV
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