Fury at army base asylum seeker plan

Housing migrants in barracks 'as bad as using a city hotel'

- BY CHRIS MCCALL

THE UK Government is facing a backlash after a Scots army base “surrounded by housing” was chosen to accommodate hundreds of asylum seekers.

Labour ministers have committed to ending the use of hotels to temporarily house refugees while their applications for settled status are considered.

It follows a spate of high-profile protests across the country against the practice, which have led to multiple arrests.

The Home Office will now use two barracks, in Scotland and southern England, to accommodate about 900 men temporarily: Cameron Barracks, in Inverness, and Crowborough training camp in East Sussex.

But city Lib Dem MP Angus MacDonald hit out, saying: “The Cameron Barracks are not an appropriate location to house a large number of migrants.

“It is as inappropriate as a city centre hotel.