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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Aletha Adu Political correspondent

Robert Jenrick says UK asylum seekers should be held in ‘rudimentary prisons’

Robert Jenrick
Robert Jenrick said Reform UK proposals for asylum seeker accommodation were just ‘cabins with a fence around them’. Photograph: Tayfun Salcı/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock

Robert Jenrick has called for asylum seekers to be detained in “camps” with facilities like “rudimentary prisons”, in an apparent attempt to outflank Reform with his anti-immigration rhetoric.

The shadow justice secretary told Tim Shipman at the Spectator of his hope for a “decade of net emigration” as Britain “now needs breathing space after this period of mad migration”.

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