I have interviewed hundreds of asylum seekers and the reasons they arrive in Britain can be summed up in two words: seeking safety
Deputy prime minister Dominic Raab is not the first senior politician to say that hotels act as a pull factor for asylum seekers and he probably won’t be the last.
Doing the media rounds this morning ahead of Wednesday’s government announcement that it plans to use military bases and floating structures as an alternative to hotels to accommodate asylum seekers, Raab said: “One pull factor is people thinking that if they come here illegally they’ll be housed in a hotel. That will end.”
Diane Taylor writes on human rights, racism and civil liberties
