"It's sad all Tories are branded as rich": Poverty discussion gets heated | LBC

Ali Miraj and his Cross Question panel discuss how food poverty has risen so much.

HBIA statistics for 2022/23 show that the number of people in food insecure households jumped from five to seven million in this period.

Tory MP, Shailesh Vara expresses his sadness that 'all Tories are branded as rich' and that there's 'poor people and non-poor people everywhere.' However, Big Brother Watch's Silkie Carlo stresses that Vara is on '£85,000 a year' when some on universal credit are on just '£85 a week'.

The Cross Question panel included:
Shailesh Vara – Conservative MP for North West Cambridgeshire and former Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
Siân Berry – Green Party candidate in Brighton Pavilion and former Co-Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales
Silkie Carlo – Director of Big Brother Watch
Charlie Rowley – former Special Advisor to Prime Minister Theresa May

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