The children of struggling firefighters and nurses could become "caught" in poverty which results in middle class families falling into homelessness, Big Issue founder Lord Bird has said.The peer, who was homeless as a child, said the Government must declare an emergency as it would in wartime, rather than taking a piecemeal approach to helping people in the cost-of-living crisis.

The children of struggling firefighters and nurses could become "caught" in poverty which results in middle class families falling into homelessness, Big Issue founder Lord Bird has said.The peer, who was homeless as a child, said the Government must declare an emergency as it would in wartime, rather than taking a piecemeal approach to helping people in the cost-of-living crisis.