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‘It’s generations of decline’: can Andy Burnham really end rough sleeping?

Politics The Guardian By Jessica Murray Social affairs correspondent 24 Jul 2026 13:31 1 min read
‘It’s generations of decline’: can Andy Burnham really end rough sleeping?

Outreach workers on the frontline of England’s homelessness crisis react to PM’s flagship policy pledge UK politics live – latest updates It is close to midnight as two outreach workers from Spear, a homelessness charity in south London, shine their torches around bushes on the edge of a park in Twickenham. Suddenly they alight on an array of sleeping bags, airbeds, toilet rolls and plastic bags stuffed with belongings – a rough sleeping encampment that has popped up in the last two days. Con

Outreach workers on the frontline of England’s homelessness crisis react to PM’s flagship policy pledge

UK politics live – latest updates

It is close to midnight as two outreach workers from Spear, a homelessness charity in south London, shine their torches around bushes on the edge of a park in Twickenham.

Suddenly they alight on an array of sleeping bags, airbeds, toilet rolls and plastic bags stuffed with belongings – a rough sleeping encampment that has popped up in the last two days.

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