Welcome to FTE Politics, a weekly discussion on what's happening in Westminster from the Financial Times.

I'm Sebastian Payne. In this episode we'll

be looking at yet another bumpy week for Boris Johnson's government, including

the extraordinary U-turn on free school meals over the summer, the abrupt decision to shut down the Department

for International Development and further misadventures in the UK's growing culture wars.

Plus we'll be diving into the latest difficulties with the NHS's homemade solution for a test and trace app

Which has been substituted this week for technology driven instead by Apple and Google

To discuss all this this I'm delighted

by our political editor George Parker, columnist Robert Shrimsley,

political cause for and Laura Hughes and health editor Sarah Neville.

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Marcus Rashford was a character few in Boris Johnson's government who were especially familiar with a couple of weeks ago.

But one of England's most popular footballers has managed to do more than most ministers in shaping government policy.

Thanks to his campaign to provide free school meals

over the summer holidays for some of Britain's poorest children.

After days of humming and harring the Prime Minister finally caved into Mr. Rashford's

public campaign and coupped up 120 million

pounds for one-off tickets to provide meals over the summer break. But the sense of

turmoil has continued in other areas not least a decision on Tuesday to roll up the

Department of an international trade into the Foreign Office and Foreign Secretary

Dominic Rob's embarrassing lack of comprehension about the Black Lives Matter movement.

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