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Food banks: an MP claimed there's no massive use for them in the UK – the evidence shows why he's wrong

There is no “massive use for food banks” in the UK, according to Lee Anderson, the Conservative MP for Ashfield. However, figures and evidence from food bank organisations, charities and researchers show that this is simply not the case.

The Conversation

Research disproves Tory MP's claims about low-cost meals

NEW research has disproved Tory MP Lee Anderson’s suggestion that it was possible to make meals for 30p.

The National (Scotland)

Top chef says MP Lee Anderson talking nonsense as he shows what 30p meal looks like

The top chef said: "I’ve come to the conclusion it’s a load of rubbish"

Nottingham Post

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Top chef cooks up 30p meals to prove Tory MP's food claims are 'load of rubbish'

Top chef Gareth Mason, 34, has put recent remarks made by Conservative MP Lee Anderson to the test by making a variety of meals for just 30p - and states that his claims are 'rubbish'.

Daily Record

'He's treating people like peasants - has he ever eaten a 30p meal in his life?'

Gareth Mason managed to make meagre portions of food such as seafood stick salad, beans on toast, and a 'spam fritter' made out of luncheon meat

Manchester Evening News

What unites conservatives in the US and the UK? Terrible solutions to the cost of living crisis

Get a better job! Work until you’re 73! From Rachel Maclean to Laura Ingraham, rightwingers love to offer out-of-touch solutions, writes Arwa Mahdawi

The Guardian - UK

Top chef attempts to cook 30p meals for a week and proves Tory MP wrong

Conservative MP Lee Anderson sparked outrage after claiming Brits in poverty could cook meals from scratch every day for 30p

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When people use food banks, it’s not because they’ve lost their copy of Nigella

The offensive suggestion from MP Lee Anderson that poor people can’t cook is straight from a familiar Tory playbook, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

The Guardian - UK

Foodbank delivers parcels to Ponteland as cost of living crisis bites

Service has been set up to help those living in rural poverty says even families in the well-heeled suburb are feeling the pinch

Chronicle Live

Nottinghamshire MPs expenses so far this year revealed by standards agency

Last year Broxtowe's MP had been the most expensive in the country

Nottingham Post

8 times Tories criticised for being 'out of touch' over cost of living crisis

Home Office Minister Rachel Maclean sparked a fresh row over cost of living as she said some Brits could get higher paid jobs or work longer hours to "protect" themselves from long term cost of living pressures

Daily Mirror

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

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The Guardian - UK

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

Daily Mirror

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

The Independent UK

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 Guardian - 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

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Daily Mirror

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.”

Wales Online

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

Daily Mirror

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

The Guardian - UK

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 Independent 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.

Nottingham Post

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

'They just don't get it'

Daily Mirror

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'

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