Over the past year University College London Hospital (UCLH) has attempted to remove people from sleeping outside their premises in Huntley Street, near Euston.

• YOUR report (People who slept next to hospital’s air vents for warmth are moved on, September 26) is a story that crystallises just how far this country of ours has regressed since William Beveridge wrote his report just before the end of a war that wrecked our economy.

The servicemen returning home and the civilian population which had suffered voted in a Labour government with a political will to reform a system that had impoverished many in the 1930s.

Is it hoping too much to see some of that political will today? Or are we just going to move the homeless on?

D WARD, NW5