A London council is housing a group of 'homeless' Chagos nationals in a block of luxury accommodation 150 miles away from the English capital, the Daily Mail can reveal.
Hillingdon Council moved the group into the flats, which had been formerly used as student residences in Stoke-on-Trent, without prior notifying the Staffordshire authority of their plans to do so.
The west London council say they housed the Chagossians in Stoke-on-Trent to combat 'unprecedented' homelessness in their region.
But rates of rough sleepers in the Staffordshire city also hit record levels according to official figures this year, which laid bare a 40 per cent increase in the number of people languishing on the streets.
It had initially been suggested that Hillingdon Council were using the flats to house asylum seekers in a similar move to migrant hotels across Britain in recent months.
