We expect our MPs to lead by example. Not scoff at voters making the agonising choice between heating and eating as they fill their faces.
Yet that is exactly what they are doing by allowing 2.6 million of their taxpayer subsidised unwanted dinners to go uneaten.
Today we reveal how Parliament has dumped 1.23 million kilos of leftover food over the last six years, enough to fill 153 skips.
