Deputy prime minister claims putting asylum seekers in hotels is ‘encouraging the wrong people’ as Home Office is set to announce alternatives
Good morning. We are getting a statement in the Commons later on plans to stop housing new asylum seekers in hotels, and instead to put them in disused army barracks, on ships – and possibly even on a barge.
We must end this perverse incentive through the hotels and more generally with the hospitality that in a broader sense this country gives, encouraging the wrong people, which is the criminal gangs and illegal migrants, to make these very dangerous journeys. But on Sky, and in other interviews, Raab was less keen to confirm one of the most eye-catching claims in some of the reports about today’s announcement – that asylum seekers will be placed on a barge.
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