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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Lizzie Dearden

Priti Patel blasts government’s ‘secretive’ five-year plan to house asylum seekers on RAF base

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Former home secretary Priti Patel has accused the government of being “secretive about its intentions” to house asylum seekers on a former military base.

Ministers claim that accommodating 1,700 migrants at RAF Wethersfield in Essex will be cheaper than hotels, but a leaked Home Office memo showed that “value for money” will not be achieved unless the site is used for five years.

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