Labour's Dawn Butler gets homeless figures hopelessly wrong in remarkable LBC interview

A Labour candidate claimed there are 3,000 people sleeping rough in her constituency - when the real number is just 248.

While discussing how her party will end the scourge of rough-sleeping, Dawn Butler told of how she had almost reduced rough sleeping in her London borough from 3,000 down to zero.

But Nick looked into the stats and found she was way off the truth.

"I can tell you that in 2007, I had around 3,000 or so rough sleepers in Brent.

"The Labour government invested an extra £5m to make sure we can eradicate rough sleeping. We approached the people who were sleeping rough and we helped them out of that situation."

Nick queried the figure of 3,000 and Ms Butler confirmed: "I think it was 3,000 in Brent. It was a large number."

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