There is no real need for food banks, just learning how to cook on a budget, a Tory MP has claimed.
Conservative Lee Anderson invited politicians in the House of Commons to visit his Ashfield constituency, touting his answer to poverty in the UK: budgeting and cooking classes.
'We can make a meal for about 30 pence a day' said Anderson, who claimed he volunteered regularly in his local food bank and argued that 'generation after generation' did not know how to cook cheap meals and budget
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