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Yvette Cooper told Nick Ferrari that the asylum system has been “allowed to expand in a way that is out of control” and that the overall number of people in emergency accommodation needs to be reduced.

She said the government is looking at military and industrial sites as a possible way to end the use of migrant hotels and that they are looking at a “range of different locations".

Pressed repeatedly on an example of an ‘industrial site’ she told LBC that warehouses are ‘one of the things being looked at’.

00.00 | Nick Ferrari asks Yvette Cooper when she plans to close asylum hotels.
01:09 | Nick Ferrari questions the number of asylum claims have more than tripled in comparison to the last year.
02:14 | "When these hotels are closed, then, where will the people go?"
02:50 | Nick asks the Home Secretary to define the 'industrial sites' she references as alternative housing for asylum seekers.
03:27 | Nick asks Yvette Cooper to give an example of an industrial site.
04:11 | "What progress would you describe that as?" Asks Nick, regarding the minister's failure to stop migrant crossings.
04:44 | Yvette Cooper explains the statistics on deporting failed asylum seekers.
05:38 | "Will it happen in September, Home Secretary? Can you pledge that it will happen in September?"
06:03 | "I seem to recall you saying in August that it would be within weeks."
06:25 | Nick Ferrari and the Home Secretary discuss alternatives to hotels to house asylum seekers.
07.44 | Nick Ferrari questions how long the temporary suspension of the refugee family scheme will last.
08:43 | Asylum seekers are being housed in "brand-new homes in Suffolk".
09:42 | "The approach is actually about how you have an ordered and controlled way to end asylum use."
10.43 | 'Why can't Keir Starmer get the message across?"
11:50 | Yvette Cooper is asked why it has taken so long to suspend the family reunion scheme.

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