Roger Gale says conditions at Manston processing centre in Kent constituency are ‘wholly unacceptable’
Mark Spencer, the farming minister, was doing the interview round on behalf of No 10 this morning. As the Telegraph reports, in an interview with Sky News Spencer suggested that Suella Braverman resisted moving asylum seekers from Manston into hotels because she wanted to prioritise processing their applications. Asked about reports that she blocked the transfer of people into hotels (see 9.24am), Spencer said:
We’ve got to try and make sure that those who are genuine asylum seekers – and there are safe routes of course to get here through a safe system – she wants to process them very quickly, and work out who we need to help protect, and who we need to return.
We were absolutely clear in our report that’s coming out tomorrow that the Home Office and contractors need to get a grip, they need to speed up the processing of migrants, they need to make suitable provisions so people can be moved off site as quickly as possible and housed in humane and decent conditions.
The facilities are not set up for people to be staying. It’s not a residential facility. It’s a short-term holding facility, which is supposed to process people through.
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