General Article The Tories’ shameful record on the homeless

Topic Selected: Homelessness Book Volume: 398

Will Covid will make us realise that something must be done about the poor?

By James Bloodsworth

Almost four years ago, I spent several dank hours sitting on a grubby slab of pavement in the summer rain of Blackpool listening to a homeless man recounting his journey from respectable affluence to gut-wrenching poverty. His name was Gary. Every night he bedded down in one of several foul-smelling doorways just off Blackpool’s famous Golden Mile. As if to complete the gloomy mise en scène, he sh...

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