Record Number Of Homeless Children In UK Reaches All Time High At Over 140,000

The cost of living crisis has made almost 140,000 children homeless in the UK. (Credit: ANDREJ IVANOV/AFP)

In the latest House of Commons report, Conservative MPs have ignored the effects of Brexit and have instead pointed the finger at the global COVID-19 pandemic and Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine for fuelling the cost of living crisis.

While 2023 saw inflation and energy costs across the UK at an all-time high, the government MPs revealed that "the economy has recovered more quickly from the pandemic than first thought".