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The Times Briefing for the Morning of Thursday 2nd May

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In 2024 Britain nearly 140,000 kids are homeless. Just because you don’t see them on the street doesn’t mean they’re not there. This is Britain’s temporary accommodation crisis, one which is worsening.

Temporary accommodation was once a safe harbour for a few days, a week, a month or so at most.

Now, thanks to rocketing rents and inadequate housing supply, more and more families find a single room in a hotel or accommodation block their permanent home.

In this latest News Agents Investigates series, Lewis hits to road to find out just how big a problem it is, where it comes from and why so many working class kids may find themselves ruined by forces outside their control.

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Suella Braverman wants to make it harder for people to call themselves a refugee.

She's in Washington setting out her case for a major overhaul of the UN Refugee Convention - signed in 1951 in the aftermath of the Second World War (but updated continually since).

She says the numbers of people crossing the channel now make it unsustainable. Is she right? And where are her numbers coming from....

Also today we speak to Naomi Klein on the war against objective truth - her new book is about being confused with a conspiracy theorist.

And Lewis is back from the Lib Dem conference and an interview with Ed Davey.

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Democrats freak out about illegal immigrants being sent by Republican governors to Martha’s Vineyard and other blue cities; Janet Yellen praises the IRS; and Joe Biden calls for unity five minutes after labeling half of Americans threats to the republic.

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As the war in Ukraine continues, Reuters has reported that some 2.3 million people have been displaced. So far many of those have sought refuge in neighbouring countries. The UN estimates that as of the 8th of march Poland has taken in almost 1.3 million refugees, Hungary just over 200,000 and Slovakia almost 100,000.

In comparison the UK has issued visa’s to just under 1000 people. Some say this isn’t enough, however, Prime Minister Boris Johnson defended the governments record claiming that ‘"We've done more to resettle vulnerable people than any other European country since 2015." Sound familiar? Join us on a journey back to 2020 to find out whether this is accurate or just a repeated misleading claim.

A whale is suspected of being a Russian spy, Jordan Klepper shares clips from his activism-oriented show Klepper, and Charlize Theron talks about her role in "Long Shot."

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