The Labour Government has been urged to take an “Australian” approach to illegal migration after the Treasury admitted that migrant hotels are set to remain for “years to come”, despite the Government’s election pledge to end the practice.
A document published by the Office for Value for Money, a recently created part of the Treasury, cited “global instability” as the reason why hotel use is likely to continue.
The Treasury document also highlighted concerns about companies contracted to find hotels for migrants.
These firms have “made record profits in recent years, leading to accusations of profiteering”, according to the report.
Will Kingston urged Labour to take the ‘Australian approach’ to illegal migration as Britain’s migrant hotels are set to remain for ‘years’ to come
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Speaking to GB News, political commentator Will Kingston expressed his outrage at the move, declaring it is “not complicated” to get Britain’s surging migrant crisis under control.
Kingston told GB News host Ben Leo: “We are overcomplicating this. I don’t want to play the Australian card, but Australia sorted this out ten years ago.
“They said very simply, if you come by a boat to the country, you will never be allowed to stay in the country. Guess what? As a result of that, illegal migrants stopped.”
Criticising Britain’s current asylum system, Kingston noted that if Britain keeps the migrant hotels open, it will act as an “incentive” for migrants to keep making the crossing on small boats to the UK.
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Tens of thousands of migrants are being put up at Britons’ expense to the tune of £4.2million every dayPAKingston said: “You can still be a legal refugee and apply through the proper channels, and you do that not by getting on a boat and then entering the country, but by doing it from a different port outside of Australia, or in this case, outside of the United Kingdom.
“But if you keep putting houses or hotels or motels, The Ritz, even a Premier Inn – the fact is that is an incentive for more people to risk their lives on the Channel. This is not complicated.”
According to the Institute for Public Policy Research, each asylum seeker now costs £41,000, up from £17,000 in 2020.
More than 38,000 migrants are currently housed in hotels across the UK. This accommodation costs the Home Office £5.5million every day.
Kingston told GB News that hotels act as an ‘incentive’ for migrants to cross the Channel into Britain
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There are now 8,000 more asylum seekers living in hotels than when Sir Keir Starmer made his election campaign promise.
During the campaign, the Prime Minister pledged to “end asylum hotels, saving the taxpayer billions of pounds”.
The Government hopes its commitment to build 1.5 million homes in England by the next election will help reduce reliance on hotels for asylum seekers.
Currently, alongside the 38,000 migrants in hotels, a further 65,707 are housed in dispersal accommodation across different local authorities.
