What's going on with asylum hotels?
January 18, 2024
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January 18, 2024
What's going on with asylum hotels?
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The Home Office says it has closed 50 hotels to asylum seekers - something it had pledged to do by the end of this month with a promise to house them in cheaper types of accommodation like the Bibby Stockholm barge. <br /><br />But Sky News has found that asylum seekers are simply being taken from taxpayer-funded hotels and moved to other hotels. Our reporters have seen taxis full of migrants leaving one hotel only to arrive at another 70 miles away. <br /><br />On the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson speaks to our communities correspondent Becky Johnson and her producer Nick Stylianou who have been investigating. Plus, deputy political editor Sam Coates analyses Rishi Sunak's morning news conference to journalists, after seeing off a Tory rebellion over his Rwanda bill on Wednesday. <br /><br />Senior podcast producer: Annie Joyce <br />Podcast producer: Alex Edden <br />Promotion producer: Jada-Kai Meosa John <br />Editors: Philly Beaumont and Dave Terris
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