Labour set to 'move asylum seekers from hotels into military barracks'

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is reportedly acceptable to unveil plans to determination asylum seekers being housed successful hotels to barracks astatine erstwhile subject bases, arsenic the authorities seeks to toughen its migration policies.

Following wide protests this summertime implicit the lodging of asylum seekers successful hotels, Ms Mahmood, who took implicit from Yvette Cooper arsenic location caput successful Sir Keir Starmer's reshuffle connected Friday, is reportedly acceptable to denote the usage of Ministry of Defence sites to location people.

It comes arsenic Saturday unsocial saw an estimated 1,000 radical get successful the UK by tiny vessel and French authorities said 24 radical were rescued portion trying to transverse the Channel.

National Crime Agency (NCA) figures amusement grounds levels of disruption of migration transgression networks successful 2024/25.

Officials judge this contributed to the lowest fig of boats crossing the Channel successful August since 2019.

But, contempt the 3,567 arrivals successful August being the lowest since 2021, erstwhile looking crossed the full of 2025, the fig of 29,003 is the highest connected grounds for this constituent successful a year.

As Sky News' location editor Jason Farrell writes, Ms Mahmood has go the location caput of a state wherever the nationalist emblem is being hoisted arsenic a awesome of dissatisfaction - with choler astatine the accomplishment of hopeless migrants crossing the Channel successful tiny boats.

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Sir Keir makes sweeping changes to Home Office team

Sir Keir Starmer has announced sweeping changes to his ministerial squad successful the Home Office arsenic his authorities works to get a grip of amerciable migration to the UK.

Here's a database of who has been moved, too the location secretary.

Dame Angela Eagle, who was borderline information and asylum minister, has been moved to the situation department.

Dame Diana Johnson, who was policing and transgression minister, has been moved to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).

She has said successful a station connected X that it was an "honour" to enactment with constabulary officers, and she is "delighted" to beryllium moving to the DWP.

Dan Jarvis has been fixed a relation successful the Cabinet Office, successful summation to his station arsenic information curate successful the Home Office.

And Sarah Jones, who was manufacture minister, has been moved to the Home Office.

For much connected the reshuffle and changes, ticker Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips from 8.30am.

He volition beryllium joined by Defence Secretary John Healey, Conservative Party Chair Kevin Hollinrake, Greens person Zach Polanksi, positive Reform's Andrea Jenkyns.