MINISTERS are refusing to admit the scale of hunger in Britain because they would then have to do something about it, Labour charged yesterday.
MP Emma Lewell-Buck slammed the government’s “punitive welfare policies” and failure to act on hunger for pushing 8.4 million people into food poverty during Commons questions.
Tory MP Peter Hollobone used the debate to slate the poor for “spending too much on food that isn’t good for them.”
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