On the BBC Radio 4 Today programme I heard something that made me very angry.

It was a child talking about how she found nothing unusual about going without food for a week because her family had no money.

If anybody thinks this was her fault, please find it on iPlayer and hear her for yourself.

It was broadcast at about 8.10am on 8 December.

I have written to Justin Tomlinson asking how he can sleep at night when he is an MP for a governing party that allows this to happen in Great Britain.

I urge anybody with an ounce of compassion to write to their MP to complain.

Howard March Tudor Crescent Swindon