Sid Williams

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Today in Focus · Can Andy Burnham end rough sleeping? · 28 Jul 2026 podcast

Anyway, it was quite nice.

Sort of impromptu team building exercise.

Yes, he has, yeah.

Yeah, we like Andy.

I've met him like six times.

I'm not going to do that thing everyone does where they pretend they're best mates with the Prime Minister.

But he's been to the village a couple of times.

Really, really big fan of it.

Yeah.

I personally think that if you shoot for the ceiling you'll get two foot off the ground, but if you shoot for the stars you might hit the ceiling.

And if you look at Manchester, Andy pledged to try and end rough sleeping here.

When we were doing our research stage before launching Embassy, I could only find 54 beds.

Yeah, that's what I could find at the time.

I might have missed something, but that's what I found.

By the time Andy had finished with his bed every night thing, there's over 2000 places that people can be each night.

So in that sense, yeah, we didn't end rough sleeping.

But can you imagine if we hadn't done about every night or if we hadn't, if you hadn't have pushed the councils in the area to work together, which some of them weren't.

So, you know, I think if Andy achieves something similar to that on a bigger scale, I don't think we should shake a stick at that.

I think the intention is right.

If you don't aim big, you know, you won't do anything big.

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