Yvette Cooper says Government looking at industrial and military sites as well as disused tower blocks
Yvette Cooper says Government looking at industrial and military sites as well as disused tower blocks
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Labour have committed to ending the use of asylum hotels by 2029
Officials target tower blocks and student halls in plans to slash number of asylum hotels
Government wants to build up portfolio of ‘medium-sized’ sites as alternative to asylum hotels
Yvette Cooper promised to take measures to slash the backlog and move migrants out of hotels
Minister says plans to move away from using migrant hotels will be announced ‘within weeks’
A government source said “nothing is off the table” for the new home secretary Shabana Mahmood
