HOUSING charity Crisis warned yesterday that the Tories’ ideological assault on benefit claimants are leaving many people homeless, hungry and destitute.

Homeless people and those suffering from mental ill health are among those most affected by the government’s draconian sanctions regime, the charity said.

Crisis’s survey of 1,000 people from homeless hostels and day centres found that increasing numbers were being forced to sleep rough or go hungry as a result of benefit sanctions.