ASYLUM seekers will swap “luxury accommodation” in hotels for military barracks in No 10’s latest bid to tackle the migrant crisis.
It emerged last night that the plans are set to be unveiled by new Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood within weeks.
Anti-immigration protesters outside the New Bridge Hotel in Newcastle[/caption]
Under Starmer’s reshuffle, Labour is hatching a plan to move asylum seekers from hotels to military barracks[/caption]
She had been ordered by the PM to “get a grip” on the small boats crisis, according to The Sunday Telegraph.
A source told the paper: “Her position is going to be ‘nothing is off the table’. We know the big problems that we face.”
It comes as Brits fumed after reports surfaced showing migrants living it up at the expense of the taxpayer and mounting protests outside hotels housing asylum seekers.
MDP Wethersfield in Essex and Napier Barracks in Kent were opened by the last Tory government as the two former bases that currently house asylum seekers.
It’s not yet clear which army barracks will be used to put up migrants but several asylum hotels will shut following the string of anti-migrant protests that erupted across Britain.
This summer also saw hundreds of disgruntled Brits line their streets with the St George’s flag to reassert their patriotism.
About 1,000 migrants crossed the Channel yesterday, as Sir Keir Starmer carried out a wide-ranging reshuffle including a shake-up at the Home Office.
Yesterday marked Ms Mahmood’s first full day in her new role as Home Secretary.
One of Britain’s biggest migrant hotels has already been temporarily cleared of asylum seekers — but tax-payers are still on the hook for its upkeep.
Residents were last month quietly moved out of the 465-room Crowne Plaza, a former four-star airport hotel at West Drayton, near Heathrow.
Staffing levels also appear to have been cut back but work is ongoing to paint over England flags sprayed on its security fence by campaigners.
Home Office sources said the hotel, estimated to cost taxpayers millions a year, was not shut for good.
Locals said they were relieved no one is there now.
John Glover, 64, said: “I’m glad it’s empty.
Shabana Mahmood MP, the new Home Secretary, has been ordered to ‘get a grip’ on the small boats crisis[/caption]
The Crown Plaza hotel in West Drayton, near Heathrow, has already been emptied[/caption]
“It should have closed for good a long time ago.
“We were told it was a temporary measure but that was a lie.
“Everyone here has felt let down.
“We didn’t mind it when it was a hotel because people would spend money and it was safer.”
Deborah Aldous, 78, added: “It’s empty, but where are they moving to.
“And who’s paying for it?”
Meanwhile, Reform’s Nigel Farage has clarified that he will deport migrant women who illegally enter the UK if he’s elected prime minister.
The Reform UK leader had not been clear on his decision previously, having initially said women would be deported before then saying that they would not be.
Now, however, Mr Farage has rolled back on his statements and made it clear that detained women, who arrive in the UK illegally, would be sent back.
Speaking to Sky News at the Reform party conference in Birmingham, he confirmed he would “detain” women and “send them back”.
Stop the Boats protesters march through Faversham, Kent, on Saturday[/caption]