A GLASGOW MP has revealed that some of his constituents have had to move their beds into their sitting room amid concerns about rising heating bills.

Speaking in his EastEndEars podcast, Glasgow East MP David Linden said he has had conversations with people who "don't realise" the level of poverty and destitution that they are in over the last few weeks.

He told listeners: "I bumped into someone on Shettleston Road and we were just talking about general issues of the day and she had mentioned the fact that heating bills are getting really hard and she was a bit worried so she moved her bed into the living room.

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"She was almost explaining it as, ' Ah well, this is just a common sense thing to do.'

"As I was walking away from her I was just thinking, 'what the hell has gone wrong when a wee lady in Shettleston Road thinks that this is just the kind of thing she's got to do?'

"You've got folk who have worked all their life in the East End of Glasgow who are having to move their bed into their sitting room just so that they've only got to heat one room."

Mr Linden claimed that the UK Government wasn't focused on the issue of rising bills and instead seemed to be more interested in the furore surrounding the Downing Street party allegations.

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He added: "Westminster, journalists and the press gallery are really interested in this kind of thing but one of the resounding messages I'm getting from people back home in the East End from folk is that yes, they're really annoyed about Boris Johnson and his parties and all these things.

"A lot of them are approaching the end of January and they're really, really worried about the energy bill popping through the letter box.

"Inflation is already well over 5% and it'll hit 7% in April. I wanted to talk about the real life impact of inflation.

"Rice was 45p for a one kilogram bag; today it's £1 for just half of that (500g); canned spaghetti was 13p, it's now 35p. That's a price increase of 169%."

"That's the kind of thing my constituents will really be impacted by and this government has nothing to say on this issue.

"We're trying to get them to focus on doing their day job because at the moment they're just not doing that."