Tory ministers have been condemned for not taking the
plight of Britain's poor seriously after a rowdy Commons debate on food banks
during which the Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith refused to
answer questions and left early. As Fiona MacTaggart, the Labour MP for Slough,
described how people battled over end of day bargains in her local Tesco, she
was almost drowned out by laughter and jeering from the government benches.
Labour MP for Copeland in Cumbria, Jamie Reed told The Mirror: “I regret to say
the laughter from the government benches says more about this issue than words
ever could.” Iain Duncan Smith, the work and pensions secretary, and the
remaining government ministers from his department left the debate after an
hour, well before its conclusion. As Mr Duncan Smith and his colleagues left,
the speaker John Bercow said he had no power to stop them, but said the view
that it was a disgrace there was no minister there ”may be widely shared".
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