Minister insists government will get asylum seekers out of hotels and expects progress ‘within weeks’ - UK politics live

Housing secretary says purpose built ‘modular’ structures on sites like ex military bases is the answer to ending reliance on hotelsThe Green party has called for the Home Office to be broken up in the light of today’s report about asylum hotels. It has put out this statement from Rachel Millward, the party’s co-deputy leader.‘Failed, chaotic and expensive’ – these are the words used by today’s report to describe the government’s asylum accommodation system, but they apply just as fittingly to the Home Office as a whole which has spent decades wasting taxpayer money in a destructive pursuit of the most hostile migration system possible.This is just one in a litany of reports which lays bare the Home Office’s dysfunction – in this case, allowing private companies to make obscene profits while vulnerable people are put at risk and community tensions are ratcheted up to breaking point. Continue reading...

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