Tories launch homelessness foundation

An advisory board will be set up and will include Adam Sampson, chief executive of homelessness charity Shelter, and Lesley Morphy, head of charity Crisis.
The foundation will research homelessness and its causes, including family breakdown, a lack of affordable housing and children leaving care and slipping through the net.

He added: “I’m putting tackling poverty at the heart of my mission for the Conservative Party.”
The party said in 2004 it was committed to Labour's target of ending child poverty by 2020.