The Press and Journal (Inverness, Highlands, and Islands)
Food banks are ‘uplifting’
Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg has been criticised for comments suggesting that the rise in the number of food banks was “rather uplifting”.
During an interview he said: “To have charitable support given by people voluntarily to support their fellow citizens I think is rather uplifting and shows what a good, compassionate country we are.”