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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Mark Townsend and Michael Savage

Fury as Braverman depicts homelessness as a ‘lifestyle choice’

Suella Braverman in 10 Downing Street
Suella Braverman said, provocatively, that many of the tents pitched in urban areas are used by people ‘from abroad’. Photograph: Simon Dawson

Suella Braverman has been rebuked by a senior Tory campaigner on homelessness after the home secretary provoked outrage by describing rough sleeping as a “lifestyle choice.”

Bob Blackman MP, head of the all-party parliamentary group for ending homelessness, said Braverman was wrong to discuss a complex and serious issue in such terms and advised her to use “wiser” language.

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