UK has to reduce reliance on hotels to house migrants, immigration minister Robert Jenrick says
He also said the UK's asylum system was "riddled with abuse" and that the country could not be allowed to be "perceived as a soft touch".
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has made reducing the numbers coming to the UK illegally one of his key priorities. Part of his plan is to implement the Illegal Migration Bill, currently going through Parliament. Last year the number of people arriving in the UK in small boats via the English Channel hit over 45,000 - the highest number since figures were first collected in 2018.
Mr Jenrick was keen to repeat his assertion that the government is taking a robust approach, and that by asking migrants to share rooms he wants to cut the costs to the taxpayer.
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