SQUATTERS of a luxury office building next to Buckingham Palace blamed the state for mass homelessness yesterday after launching workshops and a soup kitchen for local rough sleepers.

Two anarchist groups have taken over the Institute of Directors’s former office in Pall Mall as part of a campaign to highlight inequality in Britain.

Around 40 members of the Autonomous Nation of Anarchist Libertarians (Anal) and Squatter and Homeless Autonomy (SHA) entered the fully functional six-storey building on Monday night.