Scottish First Minister joins call for pause on new asylum arrivals

Scotland's First Minister John Swinney has told Sky News helium agrees a intermission has "got to beryllium enactment successful place" connected caller asylum seekers coming to Glasgow arsenic the strategy becomes overwhelmed.

The metropolis is the frontline of the UK's migration system, with more arrivals than anyplace else.

Latest UK-wide figures amusement Glasgow was the section authorization with the highest proportionality of housed asylum seekers astatine 59 per 10,000 inhabitants (a full of 3,716).

The UK Home Office is mass-processing asylum claims successful bid to effort and wide a backlog built up implicit years.

Once an asylum seeker is fixed the close to enactment successful the UK, they go a exile and power from being the work of the Home Office to the section authority.

The SNP person was pressed repeatedly by Sky News connected whether helium supports calls from section leaders successful Glasgow for a impermanent halt connected caller arrivals coming to the metropolis for them to drawback up with demand.

Speaking to Sky News up of the SNP league successful Aberdeen, Mr Swinney said Glasgow City Council's request is simply a "fair and tenable approach".

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Problems coming unneurotic

While migration is controlled by Westminster, lodging and healthcare are among the issues dealt with by the Scottish government.

Scotland's homelessness authorities means councils indispensable location anyone without a home.

It is simply a much generous argumentation than successful England, wherever usually lone those with "priority need" are fixed a extortion implicit their head.

With assemblage tensions spiking and Glasgow assembly facing a £66m achromatic hole, the city's leaders are demanding the Home Office intermission relocations.

Mr Swinney told Sky News: "What the Home Office has got to with Glasgow is respond to their telephone for determination to beryllium much clip fixed to alteration the judgements astir homelessness to beryllium enactment successful place."

Pushed connected whether helium backs a intermission successful asylum arrives, Mr Swinney replied: "That's not what the Home Office are proposing, and I deliberation that has got to beryllium enactment successful place."

He concluded helium "understands" the demands facing Glasgow.

Swinney denies his Govt is partially to blame

The Daily Record reported this week the situation was being made worse successful Scotland by rising stateless applications from elsewhere successful the UK, including London, Belfast and Birmingham.

Asked by Sky News whether the SNP's much wide laws of providing a location to anyone who declares themselves homeless, helium replied: "I deliberation our homelessness attack is the close approach.

"Scotland has a long-established attack to the tackling of homelessness which we judge to beryllium correct."

He attributed blasted for Glasgow's situation to the Home Office.

The Home Office has been approached for comment.

Farage 'repulsive'

In a wide-ranging interview, Mr Swinney was besides asked astir polling suggesting Nigel Farage's Reform UK enactment could beryllium connected people to signifier the authoritative absorption astatine the Scottish Parliament elections adjacent year.

The SNP main said helium believes the Farage authorities are "repulsive" and said "some" of his Scottish supporters are acold right.