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Andy Burnham: “I don’t think myself that taking £4 billion out of housing benefit is going to get the right consensus around this…”

On the recordSeptember 9, 2026
I don’t think myself that taking £4 billion out of housing benefit is going to get the right consensus around this issue, because that would create levels of homelessness in this country that we wouldn’t have seen before – hundreds of thousands of children in temporary accommodation.
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Andy Burnham
Labour Party

Editor's note · Context

On the impact of cutting housing benefits for defense funding.

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