The British government is planning to using military barracks to house small boat migrants.
Migrants that have been staying in asylum-seeker hotels are to be moved into barracks on former military bases.
Britain’s new home secretary Shabana Mahmood is set to announce the the policy after Sir Keir Starmer told her to shut asylum hotels and get a ‘grip on the small boat crisis’.
Mahmood, who is the first Muslim woman to lead the Home Office. is working with the Ministry of Defence to identify military sites to house the migrants.
The move comes as 1,097 people arrived in the UK on small boats on Saturday alone.
Ministers are reportedly close to agreeing on a “one in, one out” returns deal with Germany, having already sealed one with France.
The Guardian reports: The scale of the challenge facing the former justice secretary was illustrated on Saturday when an estimated 1,000 people arrived in the UK by small boats.
Dozens of asylum hotels are expected to close after they became the focal point of several demonstrations in recent months. Ministers are also close to agreeing a returns deal with Germany, having already secured one with France, the Daily Telegraph reported.
One government source said “nothing is off the table” for Mahmood as she assumes her new brief, which puts her in charge of borders and asylum policy. She has previously signalled a willingness to look at reform of the European convention of human rights within domestic law.
It comes after the prime minister carried out a major reshuffle including wide-ranging changes at the Home Office as he seeks to tighten his grip on immigration and draw a line under Angela Rayner’s resignation.
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