A boutique hotel owner has snubbed a lucrative £3million deal to house illegal migrants at his historic country house with gold taps, insisting: 'It's not about the money - it's about principles.'
Samuel Leeds has gone viral for refusing to put up asylum seekers at his lavish 26-bedroom Willingham House in the idyllic village of Willingham, in Cambridgeshire.
The 34-year-old, who took on the sprawling guesthouse in 2023, says he was offered a deal to rent it out and house 'vulnerable' people in it by an unnamed firm in June.
But instead of taking up the offer, which would have netted him £35,000 a month for almost seven years, the hotelier refused to hand over the keys to his newly-renovated country pile, as he rebelled against yet another migrant hotel opening in Britain.
Elon Musk, the world's richest man, has since praised him for his stance, hailing Mr Leeds a 'good man' in a barbed post on his social media platform X, which slammed Labour's handling of the migrant hotel fiasco.
