Record Food Parcels Issued As Tory Cost Crisis Bites

HARDSHIP - Tory austerity and economic policy is failing ordinary people, the SNP has said after new figures revealed almost 3 million food parcels were handed out by food banks in the last 12 months, more than ever before.

The damning figures, published by the Trussell Trust, found that between 1st April 2022 and 31st March 2023 a total of 2,986,203 parcels were given to people in the UK, with over a million going to children alone as the Tory-made cost of living crisis spiralled out of control.

The SNP’s Social Justice spokesperson, David Linden MP, said the figures laid bare the impact of Tory rule over Scotland and the damage being done to Scottish Government efforts to eradicate poverty.

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