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Asylum hotel numbers up 8% on last year under Labour, Home Office figures show

The number of asylum seekers being housed temporarily in UK hotels has risen by 8% under Labour on the same point last year, according to newly published data. The figures come just days after a court ruled that more than 100 asylum seekers ...

21 Aug 2025 at 13:41

Protests and counter protests to be held outside asylum hotels across UK

A number of protests and counter protests outside hotels housing asylum seekers will take place across the UK on Saturday. Demonstrations under the Abolish Asylum System slogan will be held in major towns and cities around England, ...

23 Aug 2025 at 00:24

Asylum hotel protests continue as Cooper sets out plan to clear appeals backlog

Protests continued over the use of hotels to house asylum seekers as the Government set out plans for a fast-track appeals process to speed up the removal of people with no right to be in the UK. A group of protesters, some draped ...

24 Aug 2025 at 19:32

Pressure mounts on Starmer over small boat migrants and asylum hotels

Sir Keir Starmer faces mounting pressure over the small boats crisis after protests continued outside asylum hotels and a poll suggested voters thought he was failing to grip the problem. The Prime Minister and his government ...

25 Aug 2025 at 10:57

Clashes as asylum protests take place across the UK

Police and protesters have scuffled as demonstrations against hotels housing asylum seekers took place across the UK. Demonstrations under the Abolish Asylum System slogan were being held in major towns and cities around ...

23 Aug 2025 at 20:28

Government promises asylum appeals overhaul as hotel protests continue

A new fast-track asylum appeals process will be introduced to speed up the process of removing people with no right to be in the UK, Yvette Cooper has promised, amid protests about the use of hotel accommodation for ...

24 Aug 2025 at 09:04

Government could close asylum hotels next year with ‘one-off scheme’ – charity

The Government could close asylum hotels next year by allowing people from certain countries likely to be recognised as refugees temporary permission to stay under a “one-off scheme”, analysis by the Refugee ...

28 Aug 2025 at 00:01

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Tories demand closure of asylum hotels in Scotland ‘as soon as possible’

The use of hotels to house asylum seekers in Scotland should be ended “as soon as possible”, the Conservatives have insisted, as they accused John Swinney of being “in denial” on the issue. The Tories are ...

09 Sept 2025 at 16:01

Attack on asylum hotel ‘absolutely despicable’, says Swinney

Scotland’s First Minister has branded an attack on an asylum hotel in Falkirk as “despicable”. The campaign group Stand Up to Racism claimed a brick was thrown through the window of the Cladhan Hotel on ...

10 Sept 2025 at 15:31

Immigration advice centres and solicitors ‘fearful’ of going to work

Immigration advice staff and solicitors have said they are “fearful” about going to work amid “one of the worst” periods of violent disorder of the last decade. Police are aware of six potential events ...

06 Aug 2024 at 18:51

Fact check: Hotel accommodation for asylum seekers aims to be temporary measure

Labour’s Jonathan Ashworth claimed on the BBC’s Newsnight programme on June 24 that asylum seekers come to the UK and stay in hotels for “the rest of their lives”. Evaluation Many asylum seekers in ...

26 Jun 2024 at 17:01

Migrant who sexually assaulted girl, 14, wants to be deported, court told

An asylum seeker hotel resident who sexually assaulted a woman and a 14-year-old girl wants to be deported, a court heard. Ethiopian national Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu, who arrived in the UK on a ...

23 Sept 2025 at 11:28

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