Meet the man who beat homelessness to become Labour's pick to unseat Boris Johnson

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From a hostel to the House of Commons, DannyBeales is fighting to unseat Boris Johnson. But can he win? ⬇️ He describes for the first time how growing up gay in poverty made him determined to change people's lives

“Everyone was homeless there,” he says. He and his mother had a room each — a legal requirement because of his age. “It was quite rough. I remember the police raided — a drugs raid — at one point. And so my mum was like, [whispers], ‘Just stay in my room’.”

They lived there for a few months before eventually being given a council flat. “We were on the edge of town, it was rough and ready. We didn’t have carpet or wallpaper. Bare walls, bare floors. No furniture. We didn’t have anything. We just slept on the floor together on a duvet, because we didn’t have a bed or a mattress for a period.” Eventually, a charity donated some furniture, including a sofa and a table.

It has become a cliché to accuse politicians of being “out of touch”; that their personal experience or even knowledge of poverty is so absent as to make them unqualified to represent the most vulnerable .

 

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DannyBeales You're think Danny Beales would really, really care about building as many council flats as possible but no - he's been building as FEW as possible. If he goes to the House of Commons let's hope his job doesn't have anything to do with housing.

DannyBeales Is the grifter going to be standing in the same seat though?

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