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Labour needs to be tough on asylum hotels and tough on the causes of asylum hotels. The Home Affairs Committee of MPs has quite rightly been critical of poor Home Office management of contracts for hotels. Some contractors have taken advantage of the department's urgent need for temporary accommodation, which it had not expected. As Sean O'Grady writes, the £15.3bn-a-year asylum bill is a disgrace. Steve Reed, the cabinet minister on media duty this morning, suggested a plan to move asylum-seekers into modular buildings – "pop-up" housing – could be announced within weeks. But the hotels are the symptom, not the cause. If the government could stop the boats, the number of asylum applications would come down and there would be a chance of assessing them promptly. If we could dramatically cut the number of asylum-seekers needing to be housed, we could use "pop-up" housing to help solve the housing crisis instead. |
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