Shown to be utterly unfit for office

NIGEL Farage has finally published Reform UK's 'master plan' on immigration. It is absurd.

- Peter Scott South Brent, Devon

They do get a very limited financial allowance, but despite claims we hear about special treatment, their rights of access to things like healthcare and children’s education are no more or less than other UK residents receive.

Until 2002, asylum seekers whose claims had taken more than six months were allowed to work and pay tax, but they haven't been allowed to since then.

It is understandable that British people who are struggling financially and feeling let down by their own Government should resent the number of asylum seekers being housed in “luxurious” hotels, as Robert Jenrick has described them. In fact, these hotels are typically very far from luxurious. According to the charity Migrant Voice, many refugees are forced to live for a year or more in shocking, cramped conditions with up to ten strangers, served food so dire it is blamed for causing health problems.

Some spent days in their underwear because they only had one change of clothes. Social workers and volunteers have condemned these conditions as far worse than prison.