{"id":363091,"date":"2025-08-21T21:54:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T21:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/363091\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T21:54:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T21:54:10","slug":"uk-government-under-pressure-to-remove-thousands-of-asylum-seekers-from-hotels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/363091\/","title":{"rendered":"UK government under pressure to remove thousands of asylum seekers from hotels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The British government is facing intense pressure over a policy to house asylum seekers in hotels &#8211; after a council won a temporary court injunction that means all migrants in one hotel will have to leave.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Figures released by the government show more than 32,000 asylum seekers were housed in hotels in Britain at the end of June, and a record 111,000 people claimed asylum since June last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ContentAlignment_marginBottom__4H_6E ContentAlignment_overflowVisible__N2zKU List_unordered__yNZx8\" data-component=\"List\" role=\"list\">\n<li class=\"\" data-component=\"ListItem\"><strong>GUEST<\/strong>: Professor Nando Sigona, Chair of International Migration and Forced Displacement, Birmingham University<\/li>\n<li class=\"\" data-component=\"ListItem\"><strong>PRODUCER<\/strong>: Anne Barker<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The British government is facing intense pressure over a policy to house asylum seekers in hotels &#8211; after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[2527,127358,748,127360,393,4884,6657,1144,127357,102594,127359,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-363091","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-asylum-seekers","10":"tag-birmingham-university","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-chair-international-migration-and-forced-displacement","13":"tag-england","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-migration","16":"tag-northern-ireland","17":"tag-professor-nando-sigona","18":"tag-radio-national-breakfast","19":"tag-sally-sara","20":"tag-scotland","21":"tag-uk","22":"tag-united-kingdom","23":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115068984637343546","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}