A hotel in Manchester has come under fire from Andy Burnham for removing homeless people who had been staying there in a bid to limit the spread of coronavirus.
The ‘extremely disappointed’ mayor for Greater Manchester claimed that Britannia Hotels removed people from the premises yesterday (March 24) and left them ‘with nowhere to go’.
This happened after the hotel had agreed to put people up as part of a £5m plan to house up to a thousand people sleeping rough rough sleepers and those in shared accommodation.
Britannia Hotels has already come under fire for sacking staff at one of its hotels and evicted from their live-in accommodation The scheme to put up homeless people in Greater Manchester’s hotel has already secured 625 rooms in