Foodbank workers and volunteers in Merseyside have shared their anger after comments made by a Conservative MP, who suggested poverty-hit people cannot budget or cook properly.
Tory Lee Anderson, who represents Ashfield, sparked outrage in the House of Commons yesterday, when he said 'there is not this massive use for food banks in this country' - despite the UK being in the grip of a cost of living crisis and more and more people being pushed into poverty.
Mr Anderson said: "I think you will see there is not this massive use for food banks in this country. We have got generation after generation who cannot cook properly. They cannot cook a meal from scratch. They cannot budget." He claimed people could instead cook meals for 30p a day.
