TV and radio presenter Beverly Turner on This Morning today agreed with remarks made in the House of Commons by MP Lee Anderson who said people using food banks "cannot cook properly", "they can’t cook a meal from scratch" and "cannot budget."
Speaking to Rochelle Humes and Phillip Schofield, she said: "We have a need for food banks and it's not a place that people go to willingly, they go when they're desperate for food. However, we also, he's right, have a problem with families that can't cook a meal from scratch, mothers and fathers who for whatever reason don't have either the time or the education and what Lee Anderson was arguing for is actually both."
Beverley went on: "He isn't saying we don't need food banks, but in his constituency if you go to the food bank then you have to sign up for a cooking course and I think most people wouldn't probably want to do that."
