whether it s telling people who are struggling to make ends meet that they should learn to shop cheaply and cook for themselves, nurses that have got no need to use a food bank, or refugee charities that they are just as bad as people smugglers. he is lee anderson, former num member, miner, labour councillor, now proud mp for his hometown of ashfield in nottinghamshire, and deputy chairman of. the conservative party. it has been quite a journey. lee anderson, welcome to political thinking. you have not created a controversy for a few weeks now, have you been neutered, have they caged you in this newjob? well, no, two weeks ago when i got thejob i was on a home affairs select committee visit to uruguay on the legalisation of drugs, and then i think the week after we were on recess so this is my first full week back, not been any controversies, i don t think, this week, but i keep looking at my phone for updates to see what i have said and who i have upset. joking apart, do you
for the homeless? yeah, i did, i worked in several hostels for homeless people. so what has happened? i will tell you what it was, nick. when i first started working at cab we were seeing families that were coming in with all sorts of social problems, it was debt, it was housing problems, it was relationship problems, benefit problems, and we used to help these people, and this is 20 years ago i think it probably is, and we would see these families and we would patch them up and move them on and think i have done a really good job there, and then fast forward ten years when i working for a labour mp, i m seeing the sons and daughters of the same families have got the same issues, and i m thinking, we ve not solved anything, all we have done is allowed a new generation of young people to come along and have the same problems that their mum and dad had, and that got me thinking, that we was wrong, in our approach, totally wrong. that is interesting, so, the experience of working with peo
down into politics and that is where i met gloria when i was working at the cav. :, ,:, ~ :, i met gloria when i was working at thecav. :, ~ :, a i met gloria when i was working at thecav. ~ :, a :, the cav. labour mp for ashfield, now a telly presenter, the cav. labour mp for ashfield, now a telly presenter, who the cav. labour mp for ashfield, now a telly presenter, who you the cav. labour mp for ashfield, now a telly presenter, who you work - the cav. labour mp for ashfield, now a telly presenter, who you work for. l a telly presenter, who you work for. what is interesting, when i read your background, background in poverty, who then experienced poverty, who then experienced poverty as you re bringing up your children who like i m not saying it was poverty, i didn t think it was poverty. but people who don t know you think, isn t this the guy who is very unsympathetic to people who are struggling to make ends meet now? doesn t he remember how it was, doesn t he empathise, does