Cameron rejects homeless claims

Nobody should be made homeless by controversial cuts to housing benefit, David Cameron has said.

The PM refused to comment on London Mayor Boris Johnson’s claim it will mean “Kosovo-style social cleansing”.

But he said the housing benefit budget had to be controlled and the government would still be “prepared to pay up to £20,000 a year” to families.

“I don’t think it will be necessary for anybody to go without a home,” he added at a press conference in Brussels.

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