Foodbank founder steps down as a Tory councillor after seeing ‘detrimental’ effect party was having on people
“I just couldn’t stay in the Conservative party. I’d heard people crying and listened to them panicking."
“I just couldn’t stay in the Conservative party. I’d heard people crying and listened to them panicking."
He also told the Sunday Mirror that not all people who use food banks are “poor.”
Lee Anderson provoked outrage after suggesting Brits should be "able to feed themselves for 30p".
Is this really cause for celebration?
Queues outside polling stations have formed as people try access food banks in the same buildings, according to local reports.
Iceland's managing director described the cost-of-living crisis as "the single most important domestic issue we're facing."
The former PM posted a picture of himself at a food project in west Oxfordshire where he said he had been volunteering for two years at.
"We are both working, and receiving Universal Credit, and we still can't afford to buy food for the family and it's so wrong."
“Tory Britain. A country we could once be proud of.”
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