Glenda Jackson compares Nick Clegg to a Vichy collaborator for a housing policy she argues will turn London into a playground for the rich.

"The Deputy Prime Minister, the right hon. Member for Sheffield, Hallam (Mr Clegg), who has become the Marshal Pétain of his generation, had the audacity to speak at the United Nations on the failure of countries infinitely poorer than ours to meet their millennium development goals on tackling infant mortality and reducing deaths in childbirth, but one of the first policies that he has endorsed will make women and children in this country homeless."

Glenda Jackson, a Labour MP, is challenging the Coalition government's proposed reforms to housing benefit in a parliamentary debate. She argues that the cuts will force low-income families out of London, increase homelessness, and drive up state spending on expensive temporary accommodation, while creating a city that lacks the essential workers needed to function.