Tories say Starmer has a ‘disconnect from reality’ over housing asylum seekers – UK politics live | Politics
By: Tom Ambrose | Published: 2025-07-23 11:05:00 | Source: www.theguardian.com
Cleverly says Starmer has a ‘disconnect from reality’ over housing asylum seekers
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Newly-appointed shadow housing secretary James Cleverly has criticised the prime minister for a “disconnect from reality” when it comes to housing asylum seekers.
The Tory MP and former home secretary said asylum hotels are being reopened and that more asylum seekers are likely to be sent to an accommodation centre in his own constituency of Braintree.
“The government has lost control,” he told LBC.
“And to add insult to injury, we saw the prime minister at the Liaison Committee just this week blithely saying, oh, there are plenty of houses for asylum seekers, when there are people all over the country struggling to get on the housing ladder, and that…
