The British government was paying too much money to hotel operators for housing people, said the immigration minister. Read more at straitstimes.com.
LONDON – Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will move to cut the flow of migrants this week, saying the British government isImmigration Minister Robert Jenrick said the government will deploy barges and unused army bases to house people seeking asylum and tell young men that four people will have to share one room.
“It’s placing serious pressure on public services and our ability to successfully integrate people into the country.” “We want businesses to be in the first instance investing in British workers and technology and automation that drives productivity, not just reaching for the easy lever of foreign labor,” Mr Jenrick told the BBC.
“That will create the deterrent we desperately need,” Mr Jenrick said. “It will break the business model of the people smuggling gangs, and it will stop the system from coming under intolerable pressure like it is today.”
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