The Home Office have failed to disclose information on how many hotels are filled with Channel migrants in the UK, according to Nigel Farage.
A Freedom of Information request, put forward by the GB News presenter, did not divulge the figure.
Speaking on Farage at Large from Bolton, Nigel suggested the Government is trying to “succour favour” with the British population.
He said: “One little fact for you, very interesting.
Nigel Farage says the Government is trying to 'succour favour'
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“To find out how many hotels in the country have been taken over by those who have recently crossed the British Channel, who by the way, are all men, we have to go through a Freedom of Information request.
“The last one we got was on the 31st December 2022, when the Home Office confirmed 452 hotels around the country are now filled with those that have crossed the Channel.
“The most recent FOI came back, date marked the 9th March, and for reasons best known to the Home Office, they won’t tell us.
“They’ve decided we don’t need to know. They’ve decided it perhaps might cause tensions.
“If this Government or any government thinks they can succour favour with the British population by hiding the truth from us, in my view, they are making a very, very big mistake.”
It follows Suella Braverman’s pledge to tackle migrant Channel crossings, saying it would be a “betrayal” to British voters should the “waves of illegal migrants breaching our border” not be curbed.
Legislation introduced means asylum seekers will be detained and “swiftly removed” if they arrive in the UK through unauthorised means, according to the Home Secretary.
People crossing the Channel will not be able to claim asylum in the UK and will face a lifetime ban on returning after they are removed and they will never be allowed to settle in the country or gain citizenship.
She told MPs on Tuesday: “For a Government not to respond to waves of illegal migrants breaching our borders would be to betray the will of the people we were elected to serve.”
Channel migrants will be banned from re-entering the UKPASpeaking in the Commons, Ms Braverman added: “They will not stop coming here until the world knows that if you enter Britain illegally you will be detained and swiftly removed.
“Removed back to your country if it is safe, or to a safe third country like Rwanda. And that is precisely what this Bill will do. That is how we will stop the boats.”
Labour’s shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper branded the Bill a “con” and described the plans as “Groundhog Day” less than a year after reforms were brought into force under the Nationality and Borders Act.
The comments came in the wake of criticism from campaigners who said the proposed policy would be unworkable.
But Ms Braverman said the need for reform is “obvious and urgent” as the asylum system now costs the British taxpayer more than £3 billion a year and amid a record number of cases awaiting a decision.
