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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Patrick Butler Social policy editor

Millions forced to skip meals as UK cost of living crisis deepens

Stocks at a food bank in Brent, north-west London.
Stocks at a food bank in Brent, north-west London. Photograph: Jonathan Brady/PA

Millions of people were forced to skip meals or go a whole day without eating in recent months, new data shows.

As the UK’s cost of living crisis deepened, nearly one in five families experienced food insecurity in September, meaning more people went hungry than during the chaotic first weeks of the Covid lockdown, the Food Foundation charity said.

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