Families in Britain have become twice as likely to live in food poverty under David Cameron, EU figures revealed yesterday.

Britain’s food poor rose from 4 per cent in 2009-10 to 8.7 per cent in the last year.

Thousands of people across Britain are now unable to afford meat, fish or vegetarian equivalent every other day, according to official European Union research, and Britain lagged behind some of Europe’s poorest countries, including Spain, Portugal and Ireland. SNP MP Hannah Bardell said the findings were “a national disgrace.”