A Tory MP has suggest people should learn to better budget their finances rather than use food banks, in comments which have sparked a furious reaction online.
Despite the worsening cost-of-living crisis, Lee Anderson, the MP for Ashfield, said "there’s not this massive use for food banks in this country", during a Commons debate on the Queen's Speech.
He went on: "We’ve got generation after generation who cannot cook properly, they can’t cook a meal from scratch, they cannot budget."
But Britons this year are facing the biggest drop in living standards since records began in 1956, according to the Office for Budget Responsibility, and food prices are rising at the fastest rate in 30 years.
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