The Labour leader says the government is 'completely wrong' over its plans for the ex-RAF base.
Sir Keir Starmer said the government had "got it completely wrong" over its plans for the Scampton siteIt is "disrespectful" to use the former RAF Scampton as an asylum centre without the consent of the local community, Sir Keir Starmer has said.
The government had "got it completely wrong" over its proposals for Scampton, the Labour leader told the BBC.In an interview with BBC Look North, Sir Keir said he would not have agreed to house asylum seekers at the former RAF site, once home to the Dambusters squadron and, more recently, the Red Arrows.
The Labour leader said he believed the plans for the Scampton site were "in principal, not the right response to the problem". People would be "astonished to learn" that of all the people who arrived by small boats in the last year, only 1% had so far had their asylum claims processed, Sir Keir said.
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