Migrants could be moved to warehouses and kicked out of hotels

Labour is so desperate to close the migrant hotels they could now place them at “industrial sites” such as warehouses.

On Tuesday the Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said they considering to place asylum seekers into warehouses.

Hotels are costing taxpayer £5.7 million every day or £171 million a month for 32,000 migrants, this number is growing.

Empty tower blocks, former care homes and student accommodation military sites along with flats and house could all be used to house the migrants.

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Cooper told LBC Radio, “Yes, we do also want to see alternative sites, more appropriate sites, including looking at military and industrial sites as well.

“But the core of it has to be clearing the numbers out of the system and preventing as many people getting into the system in the first place.”

LBC host Nick Ferrari asked Cooper, “Is it a disused Carpet Warehouse or something? What is an industrial site?”

Cooper replied, “Well, we’re looking with other government departments and looking with the local councils at what some more appropriate sites might be, and certainly more appropriate than asylum hotels. We have managed to cut the bill for these costly asylum hotels by nearly a billion pounds this year.”

Ferrari then asked, “But is it a warehouse? Is an industrial site a warehouse?”

The Home Secretary said, “There are a range of different things that we’re looking at…”

Ferrari asked Cooper again if “industrial sites” means warehouses, she said, “That’s one of the things that’s been looked at. But we will provide updates when we’ve got the practical plans.

“What I’m not going to do, I’m doing the opposite, basically, of what the previous government did, because they used to just announce a whole load of things and then not actually deliver any of them.

“And I think that undermined trust.”

She said that the government has set aside £500 million to invest into “new, more sustainable accommodation model” as they are looking to close 210 migrant hotels.