'Lifestyle choice': UK's Indian-origin minister Suella Braverman plans crackdown on 'foreigners living on streets'
Suella Braverman sparked a row, as she described living on the streets as a “lifestyle choice" adopted by some residents in Britain, particularly those coming from abroad. “The British people are compassionate. We will always support those who are genuinely homeless.
But we cannot allow our streets to be taken over by rows of tents occupied by people, many of them from abroad, living on the streets as a lifestyle choice," the Indian-origin minister posted on social media platform X. Braverman, in-charge of the interior ministry, has planned a crackdown on rough sleepers who occupy the streets with tents, saying that the government cannot allow the cities of the UK to meet the same fate as that of San Francisco and Los Angeles. Both the American cities, inhabited by several homeless persons who live on street pavements, have high crime rates, she pointed out.
Also Read: Indian immigrants will be massively affected if…: Expert amid Suella Braverman's hardline stand on UK migration “Unless we step in now to stop this, British cities will go the way of places in the US like San Francisco and Los Angeles, where weak policies have led to an explosion of crime, drug taking, and squalor," she added. Braverman's remarks drew condemnation from the Opposition, while members of her party also distanced themselves away from it. UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, on being asked by reporters whether he would consider the remarks of his cabinet colleague as offensive, declined to repeat it.
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