Posted on 09/06/2025 3:05:20 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
The Labour Government is set to close down migrant hotels and house residents in former military barracks in a fresh bid to take control of the small boats crisis.
The new policy, which will see the closure of dozens of asylum hotels, will be announced within days by Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, The Telegraph reports.
Keir Starmer has faced criticism in recent weeks over his immigration policies after new official figures showed asylum seeker claims hitting a record high, with more migrants being housed in hotels compared with a year ago.
The plan to move migrants into military accommodation comes amid claims they are living a 'luxury' lifestyle on taxpayer money.
Currently, two former military bases - MDP Wethersfield in Essex and Napier Barracks in Folkestone - are being used to house asylum seekers.
They were opened under the previous Tory government, but pro-migrant groups criticised the move, comparing the barracks to prisons.
But Labour intends to expand the Conservative policy, despite drawing up plans last year to end the use of the two sites.
Former Home Secretary Yvette Cooper previously closed down the Bibby Stockholm, a barge used by the Tories to house hundreds of migrants off the Dorset coast.
She had also planned to move asylum seekers from hotels into 'dispersal' accommodation, such as houses and blocks of flats rented by the Government.
The new policy comes as Labour MP's have urged Starmer to take on a more radical approach, while Reform UK and Conservatives have recently said that they would ramp up the detention and deportation of migrants.
According to a regular tracker of voters' concerns, immigration has overtaken the economy as the biggest issue amid anger over the record numbers of asylum seekers arriving in small boats across the Channel, including more than 27,000 this year.
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So it’s going to put all the illegal asylum seekers out on te streets??
they are already on the streets.....everywhere.
Does not solve the problem. Send them home, stop feeding them.
Being at a military base will make it easier for the authorities to train them for an invasion.
Does not solve the problem. Send them home, stop feeding them.
The native Brits are slowly winning this. They just can’t give up.
Dunno about that. There's a huge protest today in support of Hamas.
Which is odd because it's not even their country. So it shouldn't be their problem. Right?
I suppose they haven’t thought of quartering them in private homes...
Kind of like the Brit version of "Alligator Alcatraz".
Give them time.
Reactivate The Hulks! They put down that pesky rebellion in the American colonies...
Channel Islands aren’t big enough. Stash them in Doggerland.
That’s what I thought the second I read it.
There is a big part of England's problem right there.
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