CRISIS HITS CAPITAL

Homeless asylum seekers up 250% in two years

- PAUL HUTCHEON

REFUGEES are clamouring to move to the capital sparking renewed calls for curbs.

Edinburgh has seen a near 25 per cent rise in applications for assistance from people across other parts of the UK.

Scottish Labour MP Joani Reid said: "These figures are further evidence the SNP government's virtue-signalling has worsened Scotland's housing crisis.