Minister
says poorer places have taken 'fair share' of asylum seekers, after PM suggests
affluent areas should take more
Yesterday Andy
Burnham suggested that
more asylum seekers would need to be housed in more affluent areas in future.
Unsurprisingly, this has not gone down well at
the Daily Mail.
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In an
interview on BBC Breakfast this morning, Anna Turley, the
immigration minister, said that areas like Blackpool (where the Grand Metropole
Hotel was until very recently being used to house asylum seekers – see 9.24am)
have already taken their “fair share” of migrants.
Backing up
the point Burnham made yesterday, she said:
I think
this is about fairness, and we won’t be asking anyone to take more than they
can.
It’s
about their fair share, and we have to look across the country at what is
appropriate for areas to take, what is the infrastructure, what is manageable
with the local community. So this is about fairness.
She also
defended the government’s intention to switch from using hotels for asylum
seekers to putting them on industrial sites or former military bases instead.
She said:
The
priority for us now is making sure that we look after asylum seekers in a
secure place, in a place that is much more appropriate and where we limit the
impact on local communities.
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