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Prime Minister Andy Burnham puts out a rallying call to society, faith organisations and charities to “Give everybody an offer to come inside before Christmas”. Report by Gluszczykm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00This is the right thing to do. I feel very passionately about this. I spoke in Downing
00:06Street when I came into office about putting a care for people at the heart of everything that
00:10we do and that can't be done if you've got people who've just got nowhere to go and are left
00:16sleeping in the streets. In this country, I don't think in this day and age anybody should be forced
00:22to sleep rough and actually when you do leave people sleeping rough, it can often cost more
00:27to the state because people can be in and out of A&E and in and out of hospital beds
00:31and
00:32sometimes in contact with the police. It's just the right thing to do. And as Prime Minister,
00:37I want to waste no time in making those moves to say, no, this is who we are. This is
00:43how we should
00:43be. Nobody should sleep rough on the streets of Britain. We found this new money from within the
00:48department and this is now a call. The government money may not fully get us there. And I'm saying
00:54to wider society, faith organisations, let's see if we can do this together. Let's see if Britain can
01:00do this. Give everybody an offer to come inside before Christmas. That is just something we can do.
01:09We did it in the pandemic. We can do it again. And it's a rallying call really that I'm putting
01:13out there today with a lot of government money behind it.

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