Migrant hotels could be closed in six months if Keir Starmer offers amnesty to countries with high asylum grant rates, Refugee Council claims
Sir Keir Starmer may terminate the use of controversial immigrant hotels in the next six months if he offers an amnesty to asylum seekers from a handful of countries.
The refugee Council said that ministers could stop relying on hotels next year by offering a temporary reprieve for thousands of immigrants from nations with high grants such as Afghanistan, Syria and Iran.
Home office figures have a 94 percent approval rate of Sudan’s asylum applications, while the grant rates for Syrians are as high as 98 percent in recent years. Nevertheless, thousands of people from these countries can not work or work for months, while reviewing their applications.
The worker promised to rely on hotels until 2029, but after a series of anti -immigrant protests across the country, under the pressure of closing them before. The demonstrations began last week outside the Bell Hotel in EPPING, where the Supreme Court decided that it was not allowed to host asylum seekers after violence. The Court of Appeal, on Thursday, this decision must have a legal difficulty.
Between 1997 and 2000, the Refugee Council said that the 1997 Workers’ Government, which allowed it to give an extraordinary permission of approximately 30,000 as part of the plan to cope with a growing accumulation of asylum claims, will follow the footprints. The summary, published on Thursday, was automatically given to the applicants who requested asylum before 1 July 1993, unless public interest reasons or began to be issued.
However, Jack Straw, the Minister of Interior then, Independent “As soon as I decide,” he regrets the forgiveness. “Indeed, ‘despite the cleansing of the accumulated work’ acted as a pull factor,” he said.
Shadow Interior Minister Chris Philp added that the proposals ilk shaking tens of thousands of asylum seekers without testing their claims properly rewarded those who came illegally ”.
However, independent deputy and former shadow chancellor John McDonnell Independent: “This is a constructive and practical policy that responds to the terrible xenophobia encouraged by reform. In the last decade, asylum seekers do not want to be stuck in hotels, they want to participate in our communities and contribute to our society and economy.”
However, while panic on the threat of the Labor Party Nigel Farage, some senior figures in the party said that the proposals of the refugee council could not work under political conditions. While talking Independent, “The current climate is out of the beginning.”
Meanwhile, Lib Dem Shadow Chief Prosecutor Ben Maguire said that the Labor Party should accelerate the asylum process: “The ministers should look seriously at such ideas to happen.”
According to the analysis of the data of the Ministry of Interior by the Refugee Council, four of the 10 people in hotels are from Afghanistan, Eritrea, Iran, Sudan or Syria. As of June 2025, there were 32,059 asylum seekers in the Hotels of England.
According to the home office, housing asylum seekers in hotels cost about 5.77 million pounds per day per day.
Eritrean citizens in the first decision of 87 percent of the demand for asylum in the grant rate and 94 percent of Sudan’dan found that it was even higher. Asylum grant rates for Syrians – although it is very high in recent years – 98 percent – this may change after the decrease in the Assad regime.
Similarly, the Afghans had a 96 percent success rate in their first asylum decisions in 2024. This fell to 39 percent by June 2025 after changes in the guidance of the country, which reduces human species at risk from the Taliban. For Iranians, this fell from 82 percent to 60 percent.
It is not possible to return people to Syria, Afghanistan or Iran at the moment.
The latest figures were 20,198 people from these countries, the home office was scattered or unexpected accommodation such as multiple occupancy houses. A total of 32,917 people are supported in government accommodation.
If all of them had been given a temporary permission, the ministers could completely end the use of hotels if they allowed them to live and work in the UK.
After time limited traces, the Ministry of the Interior will decide whether the asylum seeker will be allowed to remain in the UK.
Enver Solomon, General Manager of the Refugee Council, said: “Our analysis shows that we do not have to wait until 2029 to end the use of shelter hotels-the Supreme Court on the Bell Hotel of the EPPING week proved that it is not valid in this timeline. scheme.
“As long as hotels remain open, they will continue to be glare points to fuel extreme -right activity, tensions and smashing communities”.
The Ministry of Interior promised a “big fluctuation ve at the closing of the hotel in the new year and told a state source. Guardian “By the end of the year, at least five hotels are expected to be closed”.
After the reform, Britain promised to deport 600,000 asylum seekers if they came to power. Minister Nick Thomas-Symonds accused Nigel Farage of özgür dividing communities and stopping anger ”.
Mr. Straw said that an effective amnesty would encourage people to come to England: “Human smugglers are very skilled in watching what happened in England, so if they found that they see as a zinc, he sent a message as if you were as difficult as possible.
The former Minister of Interior Minister of the Blair Government suggested that Britain should be self -sufficient and not related to the ECHR.
British, which helps to prepare the draft of the 1998 Human Rights Law of England, said, “These things will be placed in Russia or Belarus position. [suggesting] We do what some other European countries do, [which] Human rights legislation is self -sufficient and not to connect to the ECHR. “
“I think the government is in the hands of the government, we should act together with other European countries, who are equally concerned about the Strasbourg Court’s asylum -breaking the asylum returns.”
Mr. Philp added: “This offer is nothing but an amnesty at the back door. The worker promised to end the use of the hotel, but the only thing they delivered is the confusion, chaos and communities that are treated as dumping areas.
A home office spokesman said: ik Since we took office, we immediately took action to correct the asylum system and started to close the hotels and started to return more than 35,000 people who had no right to be here.
“In the summer of 2023, opened from more than 400 asylum hotels, costs about 9 million pounds per day, now there are less than 210 and we all want to be closed to the end of this parliament.
“We will continue to work closely with community partners throughout the country and discuss the concerns they have while trying to bring this broken system together. The security of local communities with hotels will always be our greatest concern.”
