Labour has already said it will end the use of hotels for asylum seekers and consider accepting an EU migrant quota as part of a returns agreement - if it gets into power.
Sir Keir Starmer has described Conservative Party claims that Labour's plans on immigration would increase asylum seeker numbers as"nonsense"., the Labour leader maintained the government has"no control" of UK borders.
He said:"What concerns people is that basic idea that the government ought to control who comes to this country and now it's the gangs that decide who should come to the UK.Labour has already said it willThe new returns agreement currently being worked on by the EU would mean each member state takes a minimum annual quota of 30,000 migrants, or pays €20,000 for each person they do not accept.
But Sir Keir clarified:"Let me be absolutely crystal clear about this, because the government has been pumping out complete garbage this week, in terms of the numbers that they are suggesting."That scheme itself isn't really working very well. So the idea that we're going to join the EU scheme on quotas is complete nonsense. We're not an EU member and that wasn't what I was talking about.
Figures from the Home Office at the end of August showed more than 51,000 asylum seekers were being housed in hotels, costing around £6m per day, while the full bill for the accommodation in the last financial year was £2.28bn.in the same month, with a total of 175,457 people waiting for an initial decision on their claim.
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