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Tory MP decides he wants benefits raised immediately after visit to food bank

‘People on the breadline cannot afford to wait,’ says Michael Fabricant

The Independent UK

Chef cooks 30p meals to show exactly how much nonsense MP is talking

A Conservative MP last week claimed people could cook a nutritious meal for 30p if they knew what they were doing

Wales Online

Jack Monroe hints at libel action against Tory MP who claimed they ‘make money off vulnerable people’

MP Lee Anderson claimed the campaigner made money of those she sets out to help

The Independent UK

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Tory MP Lee Anderson serves up a 30p recipe for ridicule

Letters: David Redshaw, Tony Rhodes, Florence Rayner, Jane M Card, Peter Fellows, David G Cantrell and Rod Price respond to insulting remarks made about struggling families

The Guardian - UK

MPs tuck into 69p coffees and £1.70 sandwiches in subsidised Commons catering

A Freedom of Information request shows that prices rose 3.4% in April for the first time since 2019. But it still left MPs with vastly reduced food bills, just as their pay rose by 2.7% to £84,144

Daily Mirror

Jack Monroe hints at libel action against Tory in food bank row

MP Lee Anderson claimed the campaigner made money of those she sets out to help

The Independent UK

Jack Monroe to sue MP after he says ‘she makes fortune from the poor’

Food writer and activist, who won a libel suit against the Daily Mail’s Katie Hopkins, takes action against Tory Lee Anderson

The Guardian - UK

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Tory Lee Anderson bought six bedroom property months before dismissing food poverty

Tory MP Lee Anderson claimed to the Sunday Mirror that not all people who use food banks are “poor.”

Daily Mirror

The things people in Wales really want to say to the Tory MP who said poor people don't know how to cook or budget

Wales Online

Food charity offers takeaways for desperate poor who can't afford energy to cook

People’s Kitchen volunteers told how the number of meals served each day had doubled from 150 to almost 300 after lockdown. Many people now rely on the charity to feed their families

Daily Mirror

Households falling into poverty isn’t inevitable. Here’s how we can prevent it

With inflation set to reach 10% and wages falling short, ministers can’t ignore the crisis affecting ever more voters, says the IPPR’s Carys Roberts

The Guardian - UK

Jacob Rees-Mogg: I can’t cook and wouldn’t have made Tory MP’s food bank remarks

The efficiency minister distanced himself from remarks made in the Commons by a fellow MP.

The Independent UK

Piers Morgan labels Notts MP Lee Anderson as 'tone deaf' over foodbank comments

'They just don't get it'

Nottingham Post

Furious mum blasts Tory MP's 'vile' foodbank comments amid cost-of-living agony

Clare Leahy lives in the constituency of Tory Lee Anderson, who sparked fury on Wednesday after claiming poverty-hit Brits forced to rely on foodbanks 'cannot budget' and 'cannot cook properly'

Daily Mirror

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Britain's oldest foodbank volunteer 'disgusted' after MP says poor people can't cook

Joan Hibberd still cooks her own dinner at the age of 100. She said MP Lee Anderson's comment that poor people need to learn to cook properly was 'absolutely ridiculous'

The Guardian - UK

‘An insult to the whole community’: Sutton-in-Ashfield people react to MP’s food bank comments

Lee Anderson’s suggestion that food poverty is down to not being able to cook and budget properly is ‘out of touch’, says council leader

Wales Online

What Welsh foodbanks say about claims from a Tory MP that people just need to learn how to cook and budget

Some foodbanks have seen numbers triple in the past month as the cost of living hits families

Nottingham Post

Disbelief and anger on Nottinghamshire streets after MP Lee Anderson's food bank tirade

There were some messages of support too

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Daily Mirror

Dad-of-seven Boris Johnson refuses to say price of nappies in awkward interview

The father of at least seven dodged a question about the price of a pack of Pampers in Boots - saying “I’m not going to get into” that. He couldn't even name the energy price cap

Wales Online

Beverley Turner backs MP suggesting people need to learn to cook and budget

TV and radio presenter said "most people" using food banks would want to "sign up for a cooking course"

Nottingham Post

Nottinghamshire Conservative MP Lee Anderson 'glad' foodbank comments kicked off debate

He spoke on national radio to defend himself

The National (Scotland)

Who is Lee Anderson, the Tory MP causing outrage with his food bank comments?

TORY MP Lee Anderson is facing a backlash for suggesting some food bank users “cannot cook properly”.

Daily Mirror

Tory doubles down on foodbank claims and says 'I'm glad it caused all this fuss'

Ashfield MP Lee Anderson dug in over his controversial remarks, saying: 'The point I was trying to make is that I think the the actual food bank usage is is exaggerated'

Daily Mirror

This Morning fans slam 'snob' guest calling for cooking lessons for food banks users

This Morning guest Beverley Turner defended MP Lee Anderson's controversial comments that people who use food banks need cooking courses

Liverpool Echo

Fury on Merseyside at Tory MP who said people using foodbanks 'can't cook properly'

Foodbank workers in this region were outraged by the comments of Lee Anderson

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