Kemmy Badenoch has been branded a “hypocritical” to call for orthodox councils Challenge Of hotel To accommodate shelter seekers in their local areas.
The Tory leader said in a letter on Wednesday that she was encouraging the councils to take equal steps. Epping Forest Zilla Parishad “If your legal advice supports it”.
But the move has been criticized as “desperate and hypocritical nonsense”, looking at his record of Conservatives Refuge hotel,
Under the conservative government, at the peak of their use in summer of 2023, there were more than 400 asylum hotels in use.
The figures of the hotels in the hotels returned by December 2022 and the numbers were shown on a peak at the end of September 2023, when the hotels had 56,042 asylum seekers.
The Essex Council on Tuesday obtained a temporary prohibition from the High Court, blocking the use of the Bell Hotel of Epting as housing for asylum seekers based on the plan.
Speaking on Thursday, Shadow Home Secretary Chris Filp stated that under conservatives, “hotels should not have 56,000 people”, but echoed Ms. Badenoch’s call for the council to take legal action.
Mr. Filp said: “Kemi’s letter tomorrow [Wednesday] She said that she would support and encourage the orthodox councils what shelter -led Eating started fighting the use of asylum hotels, where there is a legal basis for challenging them.
“What has been displayed by the episted case is at least some of these asylum hotels that are using the government, this is not being done according to the law. We are encouraging the orthodox councils and to do what EPPIN has done to stand for its local communities.”
Mr. Filp said that he wrote to the Home Secretary, Yatew Cooper to ask that Bell is being taken out of the hotel, he is not sent to another hotel.
School Standards Minister Kat McKinell said that she would not be able to comment on the nuances where people will be kept in hotels.
The government is facing the possibility that more councils across the country may also initiate legal action to ban the use of hotels.
These include Labor-Run Tamworth and Viral Council, Tory-Run Broxborn and East Lindsay Council and Reform Staffordshire and West Northamptonshire Council.
Asked if she would support the Labor-Run Council in doing so, Ms. McKinell said that it was “not her place” to comment on what would be “a legal process” and said: “I think it is important that the government actually works closely to manage these circumstances within the local communities.
“We identify legitimate concerns and efforts that local authorities are to ensure that the situation under their area is appropriate.”
A labor spokesperson said that Ms. Badenoch’s letter was a “pathetic stunt” and “desperate and hypocritical nonsense from the architects of the broken refuge system”, saying that now “had 20,000 less refuge in hotels at her peak under toes.
In the applings, Bell Hotel has been first used in 2020 and then between 2022 and 2024 as a shelter residence.
According to home office data published on Thursday, the number of shelter seekers in hotels fell from 32,345 to 32,059 in June this year.
However, during the first year of Labor, figures for the last 12 months show that the figure has increased from 29,585 – an increase of 8 percent.