Almost one million poverty-stricken people are forced to turn to foodbanks in the coalition government's "recovering" Britain, charity Tressell Trust revealed yesterday.

The trust said that the number of people receiving three days' emergency food from it soared to 913,000 in 2013-14, compared with 346,000 in 2012/13 - a shocking rise of 163 per cent.

Over two million people in Britain are officially unemployed, despite government boasts of unemployment falling by 77,000.