Today Jeremy Corbyn took to social media to promise that a Labour government would mean people on low-income no longer need to rely on food banks.
REVEALED TODAY: Number one cause of people using foodbanks is low-income. Labour's real Living Wage of £10/hour will eradicate poverty wages pic.twitter.com/RPQtLtl3hZ
— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) April 25, 2017
However, when the Labour leader suggested focussing on food banks in the campaign, Mr S is pretty sure he didn’t mean physically targeting them. So, Steerpike was curious to learn that Kate Knight — the Hove Momentum and Hove CLP executive officer — has adopted a novel method for campaigning on behalf of Corbyn. The Momentum activist has taken to Facebook to boast of her latest campaign tactic: sticking ‘Jeremy Corbyn’ stickers on all food bank donations:
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