Frank Field just about managed to hold together a cross-party consensus on the need to tackle hunger in this country at the launch of the ‘Feeding Britain’ report. At the end of the launch, at which Justin Welby and all the politicians involved spoke, the Labour co-chair of the inquiry said brightly ‘there you have it, a range of views and yet we have a united report!’ It was a tricky job though.
Baroness Jenkin didn’t help herself by telling the room in a rather garbled response that ‘poor people can’t cook’. Here, for the avoidance of misunderstanding, is her full quote:
‘There is some amazing best practice out there which we want to build on. But the other point is that we have lost a lot of our cooking skills, and poor people don’t know how to cook, and I had a large bowl of porridge today, it cost 4p, a large bowl of sugary cereals will cost 25p.
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