Richard Madeley and Kate Garraway hosted Good Morning Britain (Image: ITV)

Labour was dealt a humiliating blow as Good Morning Britain was halted for an urgent news update. Presenter Sean Fletcher shared that the Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, has publicly claimed the government is making homelessness worse and has said it needs to be more “radical” to end the issue. Burnham’s remarks came ahead of the launch of Labour’s new strategy to tackle homelessness. Fletcher continued: “3.5 billion pounds will be spent trying to get people off the street and into permanent accomodation.”

He was joined by correspondent Richard Gaisford, who acknowledged how difficult this will be due to the growing number of people who don’t have a permanent home. Gaisford explained that London is the worst place for homelessness in the UK as he continued: “The charity Shelter says that more than 380,000 in England now don’t have a permanent home this Christmas.”

Keir Starmer was dealt another humiliating blow (Image: Getty)

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That figure is up eight per cent by last year, with Gaisford revealing that more than 175,000 of those are children.

The ITV star added: “We’re told that 4,667 people are sleeping rough every night. That’s up 20 per cent on last year.”

Detailing the government’s plans to end homelessness, Gaisford went on: “It says 3.5 billion will be used to try and half the number of rough sleepers by the end of this Parliament.”

But in a blistering blow to Labour’s efforts, it is Burnham who’s said the government’s changes to the welfare system is making the system worse.

Andy Burnham has hit out at the Labour government in a new interview with ITV News (Image: Getty)

Speaking to ITV news, he claimed: “The task that we have faced has not been made any easier by the actions of the Home Office in recent times. He singled out Rachel Reeves’ decision to freeze housing benefit levels, adding: “What I’ve seen in my role when those decisions are taken, it just builds the number of families who present as homelessness.”

He went on: “Evicting people with very, very short notice. People who’ve been given settled status are just literally evicted the next day and unsurprisingly, they haven’t got anywhere to go.

“That has been really frustrating. It began under the last government, and this government has made some moves to stop that, but it’s still a difficult, difficult situation.”