May Challenged To See The Reality Of Homelessness For Herself

Theresa May has been told to tour city centres over Christmas to see the reality of rising homelessness her government presides over. At PMQs, Labour’s Jonathan Reynolds directly challenged May not to listen to ministers on homelessness, referencing the 320,000 now designated as homeless – a figure widely accepted as an underestimate. Homelessness was now, said Reynolds, both a “national emergency and a national disgrace”. He told May: “Don’t listen to your ministers. Go to any city centre – whatever government is doing is not enough.” May responded with a semantic argument drawing a definition between rough sleeping and homelessness – while standing by the government’s housebuilding record. Read more on 24housing.

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