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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Holly Bancroft

‘Squalor’ of cramped rat-infested Home Office asylum seeker hotels revealed

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A refugee undergoing cancer treatment who was diagnosed with malnutrition is one of a number of people living in shocking cases of “squalor” in Home Office hotels.

Families are forced to live in tiny hotel rooms, which are in some cases infested with rodents, and vulnerable single asylum seekers are forced to share bedrooms leading to them sleeping in the corridor, research by the charity The Helen Bamber Foundation has found.

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