Jack Monroe comprehensively debunked a Tory MP’s claim that people use food banks because they can’t cook or budget

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In ‘Tories are Out of Touch’, Episode 872, the MP for Ashfield in Nottinghamshire, Lee Anderson, told the House of Commons that food bank use is driven by people’s inability to cook from scratch and to budget effectively.

Anderson, who was a Labour MP for the same constituency until 2018, has been the subject of controversy on several occasions, including boycotting England’s football matches because he disapproved of them taking the knee and when he was caught faking a doorstep encounter during an election campaign.

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Jack Monroe, whose advice and cookery books based on their own experience of extreme poverty are an invaluable guide to making the best of scant rations, set the record absolutely straight.

It’s not the first time they’ve had to explain poverty to the privileged and, sadly, it’s unlikely to be the last.

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