Today’s king’s speech will be Rishi Sunak’s first as PM, and King Charles’s first as king
Alex Chalk, the justice secretary, also refused to endorse Suella Braverman’s description of rough sleeping as a “lifestyle choice” in his interviews this morning. Asked on Sky News about the comment, Chalk said he would take a “take a different approach”. He went on: There’s often a very significant context, which will be mental health issues, substance abuse problems, relationship breakdown, loss of a job and so on. And so I do think that that needs to be weighed in the balance.
We shouldn’t do anything which entrenches people’s rough sleeping. Because if you do that, effectively you’re condemning and consigning people to poorer health outcomes and I’m afraid, in some cases, even shorter life expectancy. So to be kind you sometimes have to be robust and you sometimes have to be really quite firm. Referring to Braverman’s comment, he said: I think she was writing on Twitter, and I actually had a chat with her about it.
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