Welfare system 'failing to meet minimum thresholds for a dignified standard of living'
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Campaigners and dissident Tory MPs unite to condemn government attack on homeless people
'A wholesale betrayal of the people and our environment'
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DISSIDENT Tory MPs and homelessness campaigners united today to condemn government plans for a draconian new law against rough sleeping.
In a sordid squabble over how smelly is too smelly, ministers struggled to defend sections of the Criminal Justice Bill that would empower the police to fine homeless people who are a “nuisance.”
Education Secretary Gillian Keegan conceded that people “should not be arrested just if they smell,” admitting that she did not know what the Bill meant by “excessive” odour.
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