The Home Secretary has been invited to come and meet people who've been forced to sleep rough after she claimed it was a 'lifestyle choice'
The Home Secretary has been invited to come and meet people who’ve been forced to sleep rough after she claimed it was a ‘lifestyle choice’Ms Braverman claimed on Saturday: “We cannot allow our streets to be taken over by rows of tents occupied by people, many of them from abroad, living on the streets as a lifestyle choice”.
“The one thing that I think she’s right about is that nobody should be sleeping on the streets in Britain. And it’s a real scandal, that rough sleeping has been rising and still is rising really rapidly, that people are sleeping in tents and in doorways in our towns and cities. It reminds me of when I was growing up in the 80s and 90s.
“What I’d really like is the Home Secretary to actually come and meet with homelessness charities and people who’ve been forced to sleep rough,” she said. It is understood there will be a joint charity letter coordinated by the charity Crisis, which will address among other subjects, the Vagrancy Act and concerns around the comments made by Ms Braverman.Emma Haddad, CEO of the St Mungo’s said the charity was “deeply concerned” by the Home Secretary’s comments.
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