The Home Office has spent more than £60,000 on entertainment for people detained at the Manston migrant processing centre, including on TVs, PlayStations and Nintendos, it was revealed today.
The money purchased TVs with satellite channels, Xboxes and other gaming consoles, as well as newspaper and magazine subscriptions.
It comes in the same week that Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer toughened up on immigration, giving a speech in which he pledged to drastically reduce net migration to avoid the UK becoming an 'island of strangers'.
The Manston facility in Kent typically only holds migrants for up to 48 hours, before they are moved into more suitable accommodation while any asylum claims.
The figure comes from a Freedom of Information request concerning the centre, reported by GB News.
