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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Rachael Burford

Military base plans for asylum seekers spark legal threats from local Tories

Thousands of asylum seekers will be housed in portacabins and disused barracks under new hardline policies, the Government announced on Wednesday.

Home Office minister Robert Jenrick said migrants would be given “essential living needs and nothing more” as he laid out plans for migrant housing at RAF Scampton near Lincoln, Wethersfield airfield in Essex and at the former Northeye prison in Bexhill.

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