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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Ben Glaze & Rachel Wearmouth

Tory minister tells hard-up Brits 'buy value brands' and gets poverty-hit Elsie's name wrong

Hard-up families should switch to supermarket value brands to survive the cost-of-living crisis, Tory minister George Eustice said before getting the name of a poverty-hit pensioner wrong.

The Environment Secretary George Eustice has been branded "out of touch" after he used an interview with Sky News to urge cash-strapped households to buy cheaper products.

He also gaffed when he called a 77-year-old council house-dwelling widow named Elsie, “Elsa”.

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