Migrants are continuing to be housed in hotels at British tax payers’ expense with Labour issuing a plea to asylum hotel providers for more space after a rise in small boat channel crossings.
Labour pledged to end the use of taxpayer funded hotels- which cost £4 million a day- but are now considering reopening hotels previously used to house migrants or looking for new ones.
A Home Office said: “The Government has begun delivering a major surge in immigration enforcement and returns activity to remove people with no right to be in the UK.
“We inherited a chaotic landscape of expensive hotel contracts, large sites and dispersed accommodation.
“We have started processing asylum claims, which had ground to a halt under the Tories, leading to a record asylum backlog and a £5bn black hole in the Home Office budget.
“The Home Office regularly reviews our asylum footprint to reduce costs, build flexibility and deliver value for money for taxpayers.”
Labour’s ‘vacuum migrant policy’ continues to frustrate voters across Britain as the party fails to get a grip of the issue.
The party’s 142 page manifesto ahead of the General Election only mentioned the word ‘immigration’ four times and was attacked for not setting out a concrete solution to the migrant crisis.
The news comes after Former Conservative MP Ann Widdecombe criticised Labour’s “vacuum” approach to migration policy following the tragic death of a two-year-old boy during an attempted Channel crossing last weekend.
