Tory MPs have lambasted the BBC for promoting “socialist nonsense” (Image: PA/GETTY)
Conservatives have reacted with fury at this year’s Red Nose Day broadcast after the BBC made “absurd” claims about the scale of poverty in the UK. During the six-hour broadcast on Friday night, which saw viewing figures and donations fall, Comedian Lenny Henry used his profile to paint a harrowing picture of hunger and deprivation in Britain. Tories have said this was an attack on Theresa May’s Government.
Minutes into this year’s appeal Sir Lenny, who recorded a film in Ethiopia for the first Red Nose Day in 1988, made a plea for FareShare.
FareShare is a charity who collect food which would otherwise be thrown away and distributes it to charity and community groups across the UK.
Sir Lenny warned “real hunger” is “hitting a huge number of people in this country.”
He added: “I have been talking about global poverty since Comic Relief began but if you told me back then that I would be here today asking you to reach into your pockets so we could help feed children in the UK, one of the richest countries in the world, I wouldn’t have believed you.
Minutes into this year’s appeal Sir Lenny Henry made a plea for
