Robert Jenrick says UK asylum seekers should be held in rudimentary prisons'

"The shadow justice secretary told Tim Shipman at the Spectator of his hope for a decade of net emigration as Britain now needs breathing space after this period of mad migration. Jenrick said there's a lot to welcome in Nigel Farage's immigration plan but criticised Reform for its proposals on housing asylum seekers. They should be detained in camps, Jenrick said."

"Asked about a moment of radicalisation, he reflected on his visit to a protest outside the Bell hotel in Epping. I met a single mum who had three teenage daughters, he said. The oldest daughter, who was about to go to university, had bought some workmen's boots and put them outside because she wanted the illegal migrants to think there was a man in the house."

"Jenrick said another turning point had been a visit to Dover with the former MP Natalie Elphicke, where he described migrants walking straight into residents' gardens and kitchens to steal food, a moment he said convinced him Westminster was totally out of touch. Damaging though illegal migration is, legal migration is even more harmful to the country because of the sheer eye-watering numbers of peo"

Robert Jenrick calls for asylum seekers to be detained in camps equipped as rudimentary prisons rather than cabins or holiday-style facilities. Jenrick endorses aspects of Nigel Farage's immigration plan but criticises Reform's housing proposals and their focus on deporting undocumented males over women and children. Jenrick argues that people-smuggling gangs would exploit women and girls and that young men would falsely claim to be minors. Jenrick recounts encounters in Epping and Dover where residents took defensive measures and migrants entered private spaces, asserting that Westminster is out of touch. Jenrick warns that high levels of legal migration are also harmful due to sheer numbers.

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