Labour will spend another £150million on new large-scale asylum accommodation centres on former military bases, Budget documents revealed.
The Treasury said the extra funds would allow the Home Office to carry on closing controversial asylum hotels.
But it also opens the prospect of more communities in rural Britain having large numbers of asylum seekers on their doorstep, in the wake of intense rows over existing centres at Wethersfield, Essex, and Crowborough, East Sussex.
Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said of the new spending: ‘This shows the Government has no intention whatsoever of stopping illegal immigrants or deporting them.
‘Instead they will be accommodated here.
‘The
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