What's going on with asylum hotels?
This Is Why
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4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
But Sky News has found that asylum seekers are simply being taken from taxpayer-funded hotels and moved to other hotels. Our reporters have seen taxis full of migrants leaving one hotel only to arrive at another 70 miles away.
On the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson speaks to our communities correspondent Becky Johnson and her producer Nick Stylianou who have been investigating. Plus, deputy political editor Sam Coates analyses Rishi Sunak's morning news conference to journalists, after seeing off a Tory rebellion over his Rwanda bill on Wednesday.
Senior podcast producer: Annie Joyce
Podcast producer: Alex Edden
Promotion producer: Jada-Kai Meosa John
Editors: Philly Beaumont and Dave Terris
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| 1:02.0 | I'm Neil Partison. Welcome to the Sky News Daily, where once again, immigration is our focus. |
| 1:08.3 | Yesterday, we stayed up until the wee hours with Sam Cotes, our deputy political |
| 1:12.6 | editor, following the twist and turns of the vote on the Rwanda bill, in which, of course, |
| 1:17.6 | Rishi Sunak was successful, the rebellion ultimately barely making it into double figures. The legislation |
| 1:24.6 | now gets handed to the Lords, where the working assumption is, they'll give |
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| 1:31.5 | So there will be, at the very least, a considerable wait before anyone is sent packing |
| 1:35.1 | to Rwanda. |
| 1:36.6 | Perfect opportunity then to focus on some Sky journalism. |
| 1:41.7 | The government has been very quick to crow about its success in last night's vote. |
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