You can smell the hypocrisy on this subject a mile away

THE reaction to the UK Government plan on using a barracks in Inverness reeks of hypocrisy.

- ANALYSIS PAUL HUTCHEON

Labour inherited a shambolic system that will take years to sort out.

The Tory policy of housing people fleeing persecution in hotels was another blunder of epic proportions.

Despite these hotels only housing one third of asylum seekers, this discredited policy consumes 75 per cent of the accommodation budget and created community tensions.

The Government is trying to use military facilities, such as Cameron Barracks, as an alternative.