Security minister says Labour will close asylum hotels by the end of this parliament but it needs to be done ‘in a managed and ordered way’
The Home Office will seek to appeal against the high court’s refusal to allow it to intervene in the case of a hotel used to house asylum seekers in Epping, security minister Dan Jarvis said.
Jarvis has said closing hotels housing asylum seekers must be done “in a managed and ordered way” as he unveiled government plans to challenge the high court’s decision related to the Bell hotel in Epping, Essex.
He told broadcasters:
This government will close all asylum hotels and we will clear up the mess that we inherited from the previous government.
