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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Jamie Grierson

No 10 distances itself from minister’s remark about asylum seekers’ ‘cheek’

People inside a containment area inside the immigration processing centre in Manston
People in a containment area inside the immigration processing centre in Manston. Photograph: Henry Nicholls/Reuters

No 10 has distanced itself from a Home Office minister’s remarks that it is “a bit of cheek” for asylum seekers to complain about the conditions at immigration processing centres.

The government has come under criticism for allowing 4,000 people to be held at the Manston centre, a short-term holding facility in Kent, which is designed to hold no more than 1,600 asylum seekers for only a few days.

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