Security guards at an ex-RAF base housing asylum seekers who say they were sacked in a dispute over pay and conditions have described “terrible” conditions at the camp.

Workers at MDP Wethersfield in Essex say at least three guards were dismissed after a mass walkout last Thursday.

Wethersfield is the main military base the Government uses to house small boat migrants.

But the Home Office has confirmed two more army camps will be used as accommodation for hundreds more people in the coming weeks. New Feature

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Security officers at Wethersfield who have lost their jobs told The i Pape r of concerns over staff safety, with claims workers have been spat on, assaulted and threatened by residents at the former military base.

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