Badenoch: Camps could cut ‘hassle’ of housing asylum seekers in communities

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11 Aug 2025 • 10:34 PM MYT
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  • Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch appeared to suggest the creation of migrant "camps" as an alternative to housing asylum seekers in hotels.
  • Speaking in Epping, Essex, Ms Badenoch questioned whether it would be possible to "set up camps and police that, rather than bringing all of this hassle into communities".
  • She said modern solutions were needed and that rules from previous decades are not suitable for 2025.
  • Ms Badenoch also sought community input on asylum seekers, saying that the party does not have all the answers to the migration issue.
  • Her comments come amid increasing tensions over migration across the UK and government efforts to reduce it, including a new ‘one in, one out’ returns deal with France.

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