A Tory MP has blasted the government as Labour are to debate on Tuesday re-opening asylum hotels after they vowed to “close them.”
Speaking to GB News Windsor MP Jack Rankin said that “Labour promised they would” sort the issue of asylum seekers.
Rankin told GB News, “We need to remove that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. And that’s what the Rwanda deterrent was all about.”
He added, “We’ve gone backwards. The Labour Party said they would close these hotels. I understand they’ve opened 14 in the six months that they’ve been in office.
“Now a third of MPs are being impacted, a third of constituents across the UK. And if you come to Datchet, in my constituency it is a little village, 4000 people, it’s on the north bank of the Thames.
“It’s got that quintessential green, the pub, the church.
“It’s only 1.5 miles from the castle, that’s where the king lives. That’s where the Prince and Princess of Wales live.
“So if they’re in communities like mine, they’re in almost every community in this country and they’re affecting the NHS.”
A Home Office spokesman defended the Government saying, “We are determined to restore order to the asylum system so that it operates swiftly, firmly and fairly.”
The spokesperson added that they have returned 16,400 people “who had no right to be in the UK since the election.”
Tim Naor Hilton, chief executive of Refugee Action, said the situation is a “crisis” which is affecting both asylum seekers and local communities across the UK.
“At the sharp end are those of us on a long waiting list for a home or sat in emergency housing, or people seeking asylum who are placed in a cramped hotel room,” he said.
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