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Angus MacDonald: “The sense of closing asylum hotels in town centres in the South of England while opening an Inverness asylum barracks…”

On the recordJune 25, 2026
The sense of closing asylum hotels in town centres in the South of England while opening an Inverness asylum barracks similarly poorly located defied logic.
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Angus MacDonald
Liberal Democrats
Source
bbc.co.uk

Editor's note · Context

Critiquing the logic of the asylum seeker plan.

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