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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Nina Lloyd

Migrants could be moved to military sites as PM tells new Cabinet ‘go up a gear’

Defence Secretary John Healey said military planners were being drafted into border command (Stefan Rousseau/PA) - (PA Wire)

Asylum seekers could be temporarily moved to military sites after Sir Keir Starmer told his new-look Cabinet to “go up a gear” amid rising numbers of small boat crossings in the Channel.

The Prime Minister has used a major reshuffle to make wide-ranging ministerial changes at the Home Office as he seeks to harden the Government’s immigration policy, with human rights reform now also on the table.

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