The Prime Minister has made a U-turn on the government’s election promise to close a migrant camp which will see its capacity increased by 50%.
Sir Keir Starmer had promised to close down the migrant camp as Labour vowed they will move migrants out of hotels and camps.
The disused RAF Wethersfield base close to Braintree, Essex will see the number of asylum seekers boosted by 50%.
The limit of migrants as RAF Wethersfield will increase from 800 to 1,225, the Home Office has confirmed.
The Home Office said there is a huge surge in migrants flocking to Britain’s shores, therefore extra beds “can be brought into use to help manage short-term pressures across the wider asylum accommodation estate.”
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A spokesman for the Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said, “If called upon, the contingency bed spaces will only be utilised on a temporary basis until such time as the wider accommodation estate is able to manage demand, and the number accommodated at Wethersfield will be reduced back down to 800 bed spaces as soon as possible thereafter.
“Any increase in inflow on to the site to use contingency bed spaces will be gradual (increasing the maximum inflow from the normal 60 per week to 100 per week) and subject to the same rigorous procedures and reviews as for regular occupancy inflow.”
Shadow Housing Secretary James Cleverly constituency includes Wethersfield wants the camp closed down.
Cleverly said, “I was never happy that asylum seekers were held at Wethersfield and while Home Secretary, secured a cap on the numbers of asylum seekers there.”
“I remain opposed to any increase,” he added.
Cleverly said, “He [Starmer] and Cooper are doing this because they scrapped the Rwanda deportation plan and failed to reduce small boat crossings.”
Priti Patel, the Shadow Foreign Secretary furiously said, “In opposition, Labour said they’d close this site down but now they are expanding it because of their stark failure to get to grips with illegal migration.”
Patel added, “Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper opposed every new law I advanced to deal with dangerous people smuggling gangs, including life sentences, and they scrapped my Rwanda partnership, which would have meant illegal migrants being sent there rather than Wethersfield and hotels.
Labour’s dishonesty, incompetence and lack of transparency is making this situation worse and encouraging more illegal migrants to come to Britain.
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