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"The Tory government are destroying my city. I've got kids and families living on food banks while they're getting f***ing bonuses."

It is "unbelievable" that nurses are having to rely on food banks, the former prime minister said.

Stepdad-of-three Harry Lay, 36, told how rising oil costs forced him and wife Kittie, 36, to rely on food banks to feed their kids - despite both having jobs.

In 1984 we raised money for starving people in Africa. This year, we raised money for food banks in the UK.

"When shelves are bare in my local food banks, businesses have gone to the wall, public sector and key workers have suffered pay freezes and cuts, his priority is once again himself," said Labour MP for South Shields Emma Lewell-Buck.

“Together we can end the need for food banks and create a stronger society - where no one goes hungry."

Claude Littner said working part time would be "surely less demeaning than visiting the food banks".

The approach is in stark contrast to the plight of 9,000 UK staff of Thomas Cook, Britain’s oldest travel agent, many of whom have talked of resorting to food banks.

A study suggests stagnant wages, austerity, reliance on food banks, poor diets and health inequalities are to blame for England's poorest people dying nearly 10 years younger than the rich