Imagine if a government had set out deliberately to stir up the public over illegal migration, or perhaps to do as one former Tony Blair aide said of his government’s policy, to ‘rub the noses of the Right in diversity’. Could it have done a better job than the past two governments have managed by putting up thousands of asylum seekers in hotels, at an average cost of £145 per person per night – hotels whose owners, some owned by companies linked to the Chinese Communist party – have raked in a fortune thanks to poorly-negotiated contracts?

If we haven’t already passed a watershed of public opinion on the issue of illegal migration, the report of the House of Commons Committee on Home Affairs into the growing scandal of asylum hotels is surely it. The report condemns the Home Office’s ‘failed, chaotic........

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