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Tory peer blames foodbank explosion on the poor not knowing how to cook

A TORY life peer who sits on the Lords committee that has blown over £260,000 on bubbly claimed yesterday that poor people are going hungry because they “don’t know how to cook.”

Baroness Anne Jenkin caused uproar during the launch of a parliamentary report into rising demand on foodbanks.

The baroness said: “We have lost our cooking skills. Poor people don’t know how to cook.”

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