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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Geraldine McKelvie & Alex Lloyd

Home Secretary Priti Patel breaks the law in yet ANOTHER asylum seeker scandal

Another of Priti Patel’s controversial asylum schemes has been ruled illegal – as she waits for a court verdict on her Rwanda plan.

The Home Secretary granted herself a five-year extension to house migrants in dilapidated Napier Barracks in Folkestone, Kent – where hundreds of migrants sleep 14 to a dorm.

But a judge ruled on Friday that the plan breached the Equality Act, designed to protect people from discrimination.

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