Tom, a disabled army veteran, sits outside in his
regular spot at Embankment tube station. ‘No one stops. Even the people I see
every day, people who used to have a chat or give me a bit change,’ he told me.
He believes this is down to news stories on the TV reporting that all the
homeless have been put up in hotels, so those left on the streets ‘must be bad
people’. He has applied three times to be put into one of the hotel rooms being
made available during lockdown but has so far been turned down
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