5 h. ago The new migrant hotels: The family homes in leafy suburbia being converted to house small boat migrants as government flounders

A secretive government operation is underway to scatter thousands of asylum seekers across working-class communities and on smart private housing estates bought with taxpayers' money.

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11 h. ago While responding to public concern over migration, the government must not forget its duty to refugees

Editorial: Labour are saying that migrants could be moved to military sites, but they should not try to ‘out-Farage’ Nigel Farage

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17 h. ago Migrants could be moved to military sites as PM tells new Cabinet ‘go up a gear’

Sir Keir Starmer used a major reshuffle over the weekend to make wide-ranging ministerial changes at the Home Office.

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19 h. ago Military barracks plan to end asylum hotel use being drawn up by new Home Secretary

Defence Secretary John Healey confirmed that the Ministry of Defence (MOD) is working with the Home Office to help find places to house asylum seekers to speed up hotel closures

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19 h. ago Asylum seekers to be housed in barracks as Starmer seeks to tackle immigration

Government confirms it is looking at interpretation of ECHR after major reshuffle by PM

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20 h. ago Military sites may be used to house asylum seekers, says defence secretary

John Healey says Keir Starmer is ‘absolutely determined’ to end use of hotels for asylum housing earlier than plannedUK politics live – latest updatesMilitary sites may be used temporarily to house people seeking asylum as Keir Starmer is “absolutely determined” to end the use of hotels earlier than planned, a senior cabinet minister has said.John Healey, the defence secretary, said military planners were looking at possible sites for accommodation on defence bases, as the prime minister wants to end the use of hotels to house asylum seekers sooner than the promised date of 2029. Continue reading...

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20 h. ago UK military sites may be used to house asylum seekers, says defence secretary

John Healey says Keir Starmer is ‘absolutely determined’ to end use of hotels for asylum housing earlier than plannedUK politics live – latest updatesMilitary sites may be used temporarily to house people seeking asylum as Keir Starmer is “absolutely determined” to end the use of hotels earlier than planned, a senior cabinet minister has said.John Healey, the defence secretary, said military planners were looking at possible sites for accommodation on defence bases, as the prime minister wanted to end the use of hotels to house asylum seekers sooner than the promised date of 2029. Continue reading...

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20 h. ago Military sites could be used as temporary accommodation for asylum seekers, minister says – UK politics live

Starmer to ‘go up a gear’ as ministers consider changes to human rights laws in bid to head off Reform UKThe most significant moves in Starmer ’s reshuffle d cabinetConservative party chair Kevin Hollinrake has accused Reform UK of copying the former government’s migration policies.Speaking on Sky News this morning, Hollinrake said:All Reform are doing now – a few weeks ago they were talking about towing the boats back to France and they realised they couldn’t do that.And all their plans now are a copycat – exactly the plans that we had in the last government. Continue reading...

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21 h. ago Ministers considering human rights reform in bid to head off Reform as defence secretary say Starmer going ‘up a gear’ – UK politics live

New home secretary Shabana Mahmood expected to to say asylum seekers will be moved from hotels to barracksJohn Healey also said Shabana Mahmood will be “just as tough as Cooper” on Palestine Action, the campaign group opposing Israel’s assault on Gaza that the government controversially proscribed under the Terrorism Act in July, making membership of or support of the group a criminal offence.More than 425 people were arrested in London yesterday at the largest demonstration yet opposing the proscription of Palestine Action.I think you’ll start to see Keir Starmer insist that dealing with the small boats, solving the immigration illegal immigration crisis, is part of the jobs the whole of government, not just the Home Office.So with the Home Office, I have been putting military planners into their Border Command and into their planning for the future, and we are looking at the potential use of military and non military use sites for temporary accommodation for the people who come ac...

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31 h. ago Shabana Mahmood expected to unveil plans to move asylum seekers from hotels to barracks

New home secretary is expected to unveil plans to use military sites as Labour seeks to harden immigration policyShabana Mahmood is expected to unveil plans to move asylum seekers from hotels into military barracks as Labour seeks to harden its immigration policy amid rising numbers of crossings in the channel.The new home secretary is reportedly set to announce the use of Ministry of Defence sites to house people after a wave of protests outside migrant accommodation over the summer. Continue reading...

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44 h. ago ‘Reclaim our flag’: saltire becomes cultural battleground in Scotland as tensions rise over asylum housing

From Falkirk to Aberdeen, the Scottish flag has become a contested emblem in protests around migrationAfter Friday prayers last week, Mahmooda Syedain and her husband went shopping for flags, specifically the national flag of Scotland, the blue and white cross of St Andrew.The community activist lives in Falkirk, a former iron and steel town midway between Glasgow and Edinburgh where unemployment is rising, and where an anonymous two-floor building tucked behind the local Lidl store has become the focus of the largest asylum hotel protests in Scotland. Continue reading...

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60 h. ago Equal longest summer riots sentence for man who stoked fire outside hotel

Matthew Crossland, 32, was jailed for nine years after he fuelled a fire set outside a hotel housing asylum seekers in Rotherham.

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66 h. ago One of Britain's biggest asylum hotels is emptied of migrants

For years the four-star Crowne Plaza hotel, near Heathrow, has housed hundreds of asylum seekers. But the sprawling 465-room venue, has had all of its foreign guests removed

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3 d. ago Council blasted for letting city centre hotel house migrants unlawfully and approving plans that add rooms for more

A council is under fire after it emerged a Worcester city centre hotel is unlawfully housing asylum seekers - and has been granted planning permission to build extra 'hotel' guest rooms.

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3 d. ago This is a disaster unfolding in plain sight. Each day Keir Starmer is smoothing Nigel Farage’s path to No 10 | Owen Jones

A simple, terrible and obvious mistake is being made. The more Labour echoes Reform’s talking points, the more it strengthens themBritain isn’t sleepwalking into catastrophe; it’s charging towards it. Last year, a violent rightwing uprising tore through our streets – an attempted pogrom in which racists tried to burn asylum seekers alive, attacked homes and businesses thought to belong to migrants, petrol-bombed mosques and assaulted people of colour in broad daylight. That disgrace should hang permanently around the necks of the anti-migrant right, a warning of where scapegoating and toxic lies lead.Instead, the revolt succeeded. Anti-migrant rhetoric in politics and the press has grown more venomous. Reform UK now tops polls by a decisive margin. Its leader, Nigel Farage, raises the spectre of “major civil disorder” unless anti-migrant demands are met. Lucy Connolly – who was jailed after calling for hotels housing asylum seekers to be set on fire and is married to a former Conser...

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3 d. ago Ellie Goulding 'embarrassed to be British' as she responds to migrant protests

Ellie Goulding admitted she was 'embarrassed to be British' as she shared footage of protestors chanting 'send them back' outside a hotel housing asylum seekers

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4 d. ago Asylum seeker denies raping woman in London hostel after arriving in the UK illegally

Yousif Al-Maliki, 31, is accused of raping and sexually assaulting the woman at the Astor Hostel in South Kensington on August 1

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5 d. ago Nearly TWICE as many asylum seekers are living in homes rent free than in hotels as government offers private landlords five years of guaranteed rent if they house migrants

UK public anger over immigration has focused over the use of hotels to house migrants who are waiting to hear the outcome of their asylum claims.

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5 d. ago Welsh hotel forced to deny false claims it's housing asylum seekers

Management said they were left with no choice other than to address the rumours and for people to 'know the truth'

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5 d. ago Channel migrants could be moved to WAREHOUSES as Labour scrambles to close asylum hotels with PM holding emergency talks on how to go 'further and faster' on tackling small boats

Yvette Cooper said the Government was looking at 'military and industrial sites' as 'more appropriate' places to house asylum seekers.

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