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Home Secretary Suella Braverman
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SUELLA BRAVERMAN has confirmed that the government is considering accommodating asylum-seekers on old cruise ships as part of plans to end the use of hotels.
The Home Secretary said all options for housing asylum-seekers — including on liners previously destined for the scrap heap — were “on the table.”
Asked by peers today about hosting people on ships, Ms Braverman said the Home Office wanted to “end the use of hotels as quickly as possible,” describing it as an “unacceptable cost to the taxpayer.”
A recent Immigration Summit heard from Lord Alf Dubs, who fled the Nazis to Britain as a child. JAYDEE SEAFORTH reports on his message that we need to increase public empathy with desperate people seeking asylum
