Burnham pledges to get thousands of rough sleepers off streets for Christmas – UK politics live

PM promises to mount ‘Covid-style campaign’ to get homeless people off streets in winter Angela Rayner accused Tory frontbencher James Cleverly of “scaremongering” over rules for illegal Traveller sites. Rayner said the government is making the rules “stronger and clearer” around unauthorised developments. He’s building a straw man, because what we’ve actually done is made things stronger and clearer throughout the rules around Unauthorised development, making it harder, making it really clear that people who try and do this Unauthorised development are stopped from doing it. We explicitly tackle any potential environmental damage and transport impacts, and we’re making it harder for people to get retrospective permission for development which was built intentionally without approval, which the previous government did nothing about. Continue reading...