Lee Anderson: 'Once somebody finds out they can actually cook meals relatively cheaply... it’s a lot cheaper than spending money on... junk foods and takeaways and the chip shop”
“There is a massive problem in this country where people simply cannot cook,” he said. Mr Anderson, once a Labour councillor, added: “You can’t just keep throwing money at a problem, eventually you have got to... get to the root cause.”
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