A PUBLIC health expert due to be honoured by the Tory government on Saturday has warned that people across Britain are going hungry and cold in their own homes. 

Professor Sir Michael Marmot, director of University College London’s Institute of Health Equity, has been made a Companion of Honour in the New Year’s honours list, drawn up by the Cabinet Office.

The former adviser to the World Health Organisation, who is an outspoken critic of how policies like austerity affect public health, said he was “astonished” by the recognition.