Tory MP Lee Anderson claims families ‘abusing’ food banks then taking kids to McDonald’s

Poor families ‘more resourceful in the past’, says Tory deputy chairman

Senior Tory MP Lee Anderson has said some families are “abusing” food banks because they also eat out in McDonald’s.

The deputy chairman claimed he has seen one family being helped at a food bank “in McDonald’s two or three times a week” as he criticised their “priorities”.

“Food banks are being abused,” he told a Westminster Hall debate. “They are abused, food banks are abused by people who don’t need the food banks – we should target the food banks.”