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The number of asylum seekers being housed in hotels has risen by 8% to 32,059 in a year, according to Home Office data.The data also shows…

Number of asylum seekers housed in UK hotels up 8% on 12 months ago at end of Labour’s first year in governmentA total of 32,059 asylum…

An asylum seeker staying at a hotel that has been the flashpoint for anti-migrant protests has described being called a “scumbag” and treated like a criminal…

Labour-run councils are considering legal challenges to close hotels housing asylum seekers after a landmark ruling prompted officials to consider increasing the use of former military…

Government looking at contingency options for housing asylum seekers after Epping hotel court rulingSecurity minister Dan Jarvis has said the government is looking at contingency options…

Keir Starmer’s asylum plans have been plunged into turmoil after a high court ruling blocked people seeking refuge from being housed in an Essex hotel.Epping Forest…

A high court judge has been asked to shut down a hotel housing asylum seekers amid concerns about violence and disorder seen at far-right protests at…

Napier barracks, one of the first mass accommodation sites opened to house asylum seekers, will not be closing as planned in the coming weeks, as the…

Cleverly says Starmer has a ‘disconnect from reality’ over housing asylum seekersHello and welcome to the UK politics live blog.Newly-appointed shadow housing secretary James Cleverly has…

Officials are to start using artificial intelligence to help estimate the age of asylum seekers who say they are children.Angela Eagle, the immigration minister, said on…