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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Lucinda Cameron

Protests outside asylum hotels ‘completely unacceptable’: Swinney

Protests took place in Falkirk (Jane Barlow/PA) - (PA Wire)

Protests outside hotels housing asylum seekers are “completely unacceptable”, Scotland’s First Minister has said.

John Swinney said he does not think such demonstrations reflect “who we are” in Scotland, which he described as a welcoming country, and create a sense of fear and alarm which is “entirely unwelcome”.

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