John Healey says Keir Starmer is ‘absolutely determined’ to end use of hotels for asylum housing earlier than planned
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Military sites may be used temporarily to house people seeking asylum as Keir Starmer is “absolutely determined” to end the use of hotels earlier than planned, a senior cabinet minister has said.
John Healey, the defence secretary, said military planners were looking at possible sites for accommodation on defence bases, as the prime minister wants to end the use of hotels to house asylum seekers sooner than the promised date of 2029.
Healey told Sky News’s Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips: “With the Home Office, I have been putting military planners into their border command and into their planning for the future.
