The Prime Minister has declared himself furious at the asylum accommodation mess that he was left by the preceding government.

And yet, bizarrely, his solution, which he said he was ‘really pleased’ with, is to reheat a Conservative accommodation scheme that was both spectacularly ill-judged and unsuccessful.

The government’s latest announcement – that it will move asylum seekers out of hotels and into camps in disused army barracks – shows how out-of-touch it has become.

The public is rightly furious about the dysfunctionality of our asylum system, but we don’t want to simply switch from one demeaning and expensive form of asylum accommodation to another.

We want real change to create an asylum system that functions well, and a realistic plan to end small boat crossings by regulating

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