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Welcome to the Restis Politics.

Welcome to the Restis Politics question time with me Rory Stewart and me

Alisto Campbell and Alistair you you seem to be back in London is that right I am I'm in London

I'm in London I'm in my house very beautiful blue wall behind you I a very beautiful blue wall supposed to the red wall.

Yeah, that's it.

Yeah.

Now why don't we start with one in Perth and Kin Ross Rory Hughes.

I manage a busy food bank in Perth and Kin Ross close to home

Rory. It's the cost of living crisis and yet only a handful of elected officials

have ever engaged to ask what we're seeing and hearing, why is there not more interest in poverty

and how should I call this out? I hear this a lot from people who are involved in that sort of thing,

that they, yes people are aware of the existence of food banks, but when you look at our politics

and our media, you don't really see that much focus on what it is like to be so poor that

you're having to, you know know regularly rely on handouts from food from other

people and organizations.

You're completely right and obviously labor talks about it more than the Conservatives but even

labor doesn't talk about it as much as

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