Is Suella Braverman in trouble over rough sleepers?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:19.3 | Hello and welcome to Coffey House Shots |
| 0:20.9 | Suspectators Daily Politics Podcast. |
| 0:23.2 | I'm Katie Balls and I'm joined by Isabel Hardman and Fraser Nelson. |
| 0:27.6 | Now tomorrow Parliament returns for the King's speech. |
| 0:30.6 | There's not sort of talk at moment about what could fill that. But before we get there, it's another policy |
| 0:36.7 | suggestion that is causing issue today within the Tory party and beyond, and that relates |
| 0:41.8 | to the Home Secretary Sue Ella Braverman. |
| 0:44.0 | Braverman is proposing new laws to restrict the use of tents by homeless people. |
| 0:48.6 | However, the part that has animated both the opposition and summer party is that she argued that many of those who use the tents see it as a lifestyle choice. |
| 0:57.0 | It's about just Talk Us Free Wirrier at from the original Financial Time Story at the weekend and then the Home Secretary confirming it with those comments. |
| 1:07.6 | Yeah, so she confirmed this on Twitter and said nobody in Britain should be living in a tent on our streets. |
| 1:14.8 | There are options for people who don't want to be sleeping rough. |
| 1:18.3 | Then she described them as living on the streets as a lifestyle choice and that the streets were being taken over by rows of tents occupied by people many of them from abroad. |
| 1:30.0 | Now she's an intelligent woman she knew that her comments were going to spark what we in the |
| 1:37.7 | newspaper trade like to call Fury and there has indeed been fury at her comments. |
| 1:44.0 | And that was obviously the intention of what she was doing. |
| 1:47.0 | I think it is a much more complicated issue than people like to make out in that to a certain extent |
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