Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe tells Johnson she ‘lived in shadow’ of his wrong comments for years – as it happened

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Jacob Rees-Mogg has become the second minister to distance himself from the comments connecting food bank usage with an inability to cook made on Wednesday by Lee Anderson in the House of Commons.

Anderson caused outrage after suggesting food bank usage has risen in part because of generation after generation" of people who are unable to cook or budget properly.

Rees-Mogg told Sky News:

Somebody in my position cannot possibly say things like that, I can't cook myself and it wouldn't be right for me to lecture people on how to live their lives.

I think human nature is about empathising with people who live different lives from oneself.

Prospect represents highly skilled civil servants, many of whom have better paid comparators in the private sector. We also represent roles across the private sector and quite frankly would not expect to see those employers behave in the way the government is towards its civil servants.

To be clear: without these civil servants you will not be able to effectively help our country recover from the pandemic, nor tackle the cost-of-living crisis. It will also not be possible to achieve your levelling up ambitions