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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Martina Bet

Plans to move 2,000 migrants into RAF Scampton ‘delayed until October’

PA Wire

The Home Office has been forced to delay plans to move thousands of asylum seekers to a Lincolnshire RAF base, in the latest blow to Rishi Sunak’s controversial accommodation strategy.

Migrants will not be moved to Scampton until October, despite the Home Office previously claiming that transfers would start “this summer”, because required tests on buildings and utilities have not been carried out.

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