Military sites are set to be used to house asylum seekers under Sir Keir Starmer’s plans to stop using hotels as migrant accommodation as quickly as possible.

The Prime Minister is facing unrest from Labour MPs who are worried that the failure to prevent illegal crossings of the English Channel in small boats is proving a political boost for Reform UK.

Shabana Mahmood, the new Home Secretary , has vowed to double down on efforts to end illegal immigration, after official statistics showed 30,000 asylum seekers had reached the UK in small boats so far this year.

She said the scale of the problem was “utterly unacceptable” and promised that the first migrants will be returned to France under a new border security deal “imminently”.

Starmer has promised that by the time of the next

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