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Amy Fenton & Hollie Bone

Pub boss lives on £1 food budget to show struggling Brits are 'surviving not living'

A pub landlord has claimed "no one should live like this" after he fed himself with just £1 a day for a week in a bid to raise awareness of rising costs.

Craig Harker, 35, decided to take on the challenge of feeding himself for less than the cost of a Big Mac each day after hearing one Tory MP had suggested people could make meals with 30 pence.

The dad-of-three from Stockton on Tees, Co Durham, is used to spending £200 a week on food and claims he lost eight pounds in weight from the overhaul to his daily intake but added it wasn't a 'healthy diet'.

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