Keir Starmer has been humiliated once again as Sky News issued a breaking update
Keir Starmer has been dealt yet another blow as new figures have shown the number of asylum seekers in UK hotels has risen. Home Office figures show 32,059 asylum seekers were staying in hotels in June, up 8% in the past year. The figures come amidst growing fury from locals and councils, who are pushing for legal action to stop the use of hotels for housing asylum seekers. Sky News presenter Gareth Barlow was joined by Reform UK’s Zia Yusuf, who claimed “illegal immigration is out of control”.
He said: “It’s clear illegal immigration continues to be totally out of control. The asylum system continues to be totally out of control. The data shows that over the last year, a record number of people crossed the channel illegally, a record number claimed asylum in this country. I want to be clear, though, this is not just about hotels. Yes, the number in hotels has gone up, but the number of illegal migrants being put up at hotels at taxpayer expense actually peaked at 56,000 in 2023 under a Tory government.”
Despite the figure being lower, Yusuf claimed it is “nothing to celebrate” because it means migrants are being moved into houses of occupation.
He continued: “They’re going into terraced homes, very crowded areas, crowded estates, with knowledge or permission of local people and in some cases, local people are being terrorised.
“What we need is a deportation programme so that people who come to this country illegally know that if you do that, you will not be able to get asylum here, you won’t get free stuff at the taxpayer expense and they will be deported to the country in which they came and that’s what the Reform government will do.”
It comes after Epping Forest District Council obtained a temporary High Court injunction preventing asylum seekers from being accommodated at a hotel in Essex.
Keir Starmer has been dealt yet another blow (Image: Getty)
The Bell Hotel in Epping, which is owned by Somani Hotels Limited, must stop housing asylum seekers by 12 September.
The judge had previously rejected Home Secretary Yvette Cooper’s last-minute attempt to halt their removal.
Epping Forest District Council argued The Bell Hotel had become a “breeding ground for unrest” following several violent protests that led to multiple arrests and injuries to police officers in recent weeks.
Kemi Badenoch described the injunction as “a victory for the mums and dads I spoke to in Epping who just want their children to be safe”.
