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I won’t abandon anyone to sleep rough on our streets. That’s my £442m promise | Andy Burnham

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I won’t abandon anyone to sleep rough on our streets. That’s my £442m promise | Andy Burnham
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Today we begin our drive to get everyone in for Christmas. And it will be for local communities up and down the land to decide how best to do itBurnham launches ‘national drive’ to get rough sleepers off streets by ChristmasI’ve always thought you can tell something about a country by what it learns to walk past. And, somewhere along the way, we’ve got used to seeing people sleeping rough on our streets.We see people bedded down in doorways and sat outside stations, carrying their lives in rucks

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