A group of asylum seekers have spent two nights sleeping rough in London over cramped hotel conditions, a council leader has claimed.
Adam Hug, who heads up Westminster City Council, says the refugees refuse to enter a Pimlico hotel where the Home Office had asked them to sleep “four people per room.”
proIn a letter to Home Secretary Suella Braverman, the Labour councillor expressed his “deep concern” that around 40 refugees were placed in the borough on Wednesday night “without appropriate accommodation or support available” and no prior communication with the local authority.
On Friday morning, around 20 people remained outside the Comfort Inn in protest at the conditions inside, according to the council, with pictures showing suitcases and blankets strewn across the pavement….