While many Tory MPs are supportive of the government’s tough immigration stance, some have objected to asylum seekers being housed in their backyard 🔎 eleanormia looks at what they have said
that Ms Braverman rang him up “out of the blue” last week to inform him of the plans, and that she was unsympathetic about concerns over an influx of migrants on the seaside town.
Writing on Facebook, he said he had spoken to the Home Office to highlight “the remote nature of the site, the limited transport infrastructure and narrow road network and that these factors would mean the site wasn’t appropriate for asylum accommodation”. She said: “Can I ask why it is deemed appropriate for asylum seeker accommodation to be placed in a rural village in Essex with single men where there is no infrastructure, no amenities, but it was not appropriate for somewhere like Linton-on-Ouse?”Huw Merriman, MP for Bexhill and rail minister, has spoken out against plans announced by Mr Jenrick for asylum seekers to be accommodated at the site of a former training centre, known as Northeye, in his constituency.
Sir Edward Leigh, the MP for Gainsborough, has criticised the Government for failing to notify him of the plans for a site in his constituency.He claimed his principal concern was that the new asylum centre, which is expected to be temporary, would not jeopardise government plans to rejuvenate the site at a cost of £300m.
Speaking in the Commons in May last year, Mr Hollinrake said the local area was “a village without street lights, without police presence, it will devastate the community. She said: “Will my right honourable friend reconsider the Government’s proposal to relocate approximately 500 single male asylum seekers to Beaconside in Stafford?
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