Leader of the United Kingdom’s Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch, has suggested migrants should be housed in ‘camps’ instead of hotels.
According to Mail Online, she made the suggestion on Monday, August 11, during a visit to Essex.
Badenoch explained that some communities feel unsafe as a result of migrant hotels.
Speaking in Epping, which has been the centre of anti-asylum seeker hotel protests, Mrs Badenoch said: ‘Is it possible for us to set up camps and police that, rather than bringing all of this hassle into communities?’
She added: ‘As a party, we need to also hear from the community about what you think the solutions are. We don’t have all the answers; it’s important that we make sure that the community is part of the problem solved.’
During her visit, Mrs Badenoch also warned that some communities don’t feel safe’.
Speaking about the possibility of putting asylum seekers in camps, she said: ‘We need to make sure that communities like Epping are safe.
‘What a lot of the parents – the mothers and even some of the children – have said to me is that they don’t feel safe.
‘It is unfair to impose this burden on communities… lots of people here have been talking about being harassed by a lot of people in the hotels.’
Her trip to Essex followed weeks of protests at the Bell Hotel, which hosts migrants, after an asylum seeker was charged with allegedly attempting to kiss a 14-year-old girl.
Mrs Badenoch said yesterday: ‘Not everyone here is a genuine asylum seeker. People are arriving in our country illegally.
‘That is why we have a plan to make sure that people who arrive here illegally are deported immediately.
‘We need to close down that pathway to citizenship, that means that lots of people get here not making any contributions, claiming welfare, claiming benefits. We also need a deterrent.’
