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Pub owner lives off £1 for food per day to highlight cost of living crisis

Craig Harker says people are ‘living, but not surviving’

The Independent UK

North East pub landlord lives off £1 a day to show how tough it is as cost of living hits families

Craig Harker, a landlord from Stockton-on-Tees, has been feeding himself for £1 a day this week to raise awareness of the struggles people are facing - this is how he got on

Chronicle Live

Pub landlord lives off £1 a day food budget to show how tough it is

Craig Harker said many people were 'not living - but surviving'

Wales Online

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'Living on 30p meals for just a few days was exhausting'

The experiment was inspired by the comments of an MP

Wales Online

I lived on 30p meals for just 3 days and it was exhausting

MP Lee Anderson said they could be easily cooked

Nottingham Post

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.

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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

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

Chronicle Live

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

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Nottingham Post

Nottinghamshire MPs expenses so far this year revealed by standards agency

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

Daily Mirror

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

The Independent UK

Tory MP decides he wants benefits raised immediately after visit to food bank

‘People on the breadline cannot afford to wait,’ says Michael Fabricant

Wales Online

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

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The Independent UK

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

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

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

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