RUDD’S FOOD BANK SHAME

James Frith, the new Labour MP for Bury North, overheard Amber Rudd at Prime Minister’s Questions saying, dismissively: “They always throw food banks at us.”

Jeremy Corbyn had just raised the issue of nurses going to food banks, and how the public sector pay cap is failing workers.

The exponential growth in food banks – now delivering over a million food parcels a year – is down to seven years of relentless Tory austerity. If the Home Secretary wants Labour to stop throwing food banks at them, her government could just stop people going hungry – by raising wages and ending vicious benefit cuts and incompetent delays. ANGER Frith overheard her