In his first speech as Prime Minister, Andy Burnham made a bold promise.
The newly anointed Labour leader stood outside No 10 and vowed to end rough sleeping.
Offering his vision of ‘the kind of Britain I want us to be’, he said: ‘Let’s bring back hope.’
This is perhaps easier to say on the steps of Downing Street than slumped in the doorway of a law firm in Birmingham city centre.
Particularly if that’s a doorway you’ve come to call home. Such is the predicament that Andrew, 61, a former miner turned alcoholic, has found himself in.
‘It is never going to work,’ he
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