New plans to move asylum seekers in to Inverness barracks

According to the BBC, the UK Government is drawing up plans to move asylum seekers to two military barracks.

By the end of next month people would be housed in Cameron Barracks in Inverness and Crowborough army training camp in East Sussex.

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The barracks are mostly used for exercising troops, but they remain the regimental headquarters of the Highlanders, 4th Batallion.

It’s expected that eventually up to 900 people would live there.

The Labour government has promised to end the use of asylum hotels by the next election.

In 2022 the Conservative administration said it would use “large sites” such as barracks to house people seeking refugee status, a practice Labour had claimed it would end.

A Home Office spokesperson said: ”We are furious at the level of illegal migrants and asylum hotels.

“This government will close every asylum hotel. Work is well under way, with more suitable sites being brought forward to ease pressure on communities and cut asylum costs.”