ANTI-POVERTY campaigner and footballer Marcus Rashford once again poured scorn on the government today following its hammer-blow decision to slash universal credit.

Mr Rashford, speaking after collecting an honorary degree for his work battling child poverty, warned that Britain’s poorest families will have to choose between being going hungry or being cold this winter.

Two days after the government axed the £20-a-week uplift from universal credit (UC) on which more than six million people rely, Mr Rashford recalled his own childhood when his mother faced making the same impossible choice — heating or eating.