Tory rebels plan to decriminalise rough sleeping by repealing 200-year-old law
by Eleni Courea Political correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#6KRKY)
Group working with Labour and Lib Dem MPs oppose government's move to introduce harsher measures
Rough sleeping could be fully decriminalised after 200 years under proposals from rebel Conservative MPs to repeal legislation dating from the aftermath of the Napoleonic wars.
A group of Tories working with Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs want to strip out proposed and existing legislation that criminalises homelessness.
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