Tens of thousands of poor families in the United Kingdom do not have enough to eat due to government cuts, Human Rights Watch said in a damning report released on Monday.
The human rights organisation said the UK government was in "clear breach" of its duty to ensure food access.
The 115-page report included interviews with 126 experts, community staff, volunteers, and families whose stories reveal a bleak struggle to make ends meet in the world's fifth-largest economy.
The UK's largest food bank charity, the Trussell Trust, for instance, documented a 5,146% increase in emergency food shipments delivered between 2008 and 2018.
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