{"id":39617,"date":"2023-11-06T11:58:37","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T11:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=39617"},"modified":"2023-11-06T11:58:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T11:58:39","slug":"sunak-declines-to-back-bravermans-claim-homelessness-is-lifestyle-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2023\/11\/06\/sunak-declines-to-back-bravermans-claim-homelessness-is-lifestyle-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunak declines to back Braverman\u2019s claim homelessness is \u2018lifestyle choice\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Rishi Sunak<\/strong>&nbsp;has not accepted that Suella Braverman\u2019s description of rough sleeping as a \u201clifestyle choice\u201d was offensive \u2013 although he declined to use her language himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Asked this morning if the term was offensive, Sunak told broadcasters in a pooled interview:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t want anyone to sleep rough on our streets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s why the government is investing \u00a32bn over the next few years to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping. I\u2019m pleased that the number of people sleeping rough is down by a third since the peak, but of course there is more to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our Homelessness Reduction Act, which is a landmark law that we passed, has already ensured that over 600,000 people have had their homelessness prevented or relieved. So I\u2019m proud of that record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But of course there is more to do and we\u2019ll keep going so that nobody has to sleep rough on our streets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">source:theguardian <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rishi Sunak&nbsp;has not accepted that Suella Braverman\u2019s description of rough sleeping as a \u201clifestyle choice\u201d was offensive \u2013 although he declined to use her language himself. Asked this morning if the term was offensive, Sunak told broadcasters in a pooled interview: I don\u2019t want anyone to sleep rough on our streets. That\u2019s why the government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":29046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[10391,2264,3259,11493,10342,5266,8284,8302],"class_list":["post-39617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-declined","tag-government","tag-homeless","tag-interview","tag-law","tag-rishi-sunak","tag-suella-braverman","tag-sunak"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39618,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39617\/revisions\/39618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}