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Asylum-seekers have been left in “unacceptably poor” housing by bungling private firms, campaigns and MPs said yesterday.
The public accounts committee slammed the Home Office for taking a “short-sightedly” hands-off approach after handing contracts to provide accommodation to 23,000 destitute asylum-seekers to G4S, Serco and Clearel in 2012.
MPs said that G4S and Serco had no experience of such work and weren’t up to the task.
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If we can tackle the big issues, like delivering decent public services and affordable state-built and owned housing by making the richest pay a fair amount of tax, Labour can win back the trust and support of the electorate, argues ANDY McDONALD MP
DIANE ABBOTT explodes the anti-migrant myths perpetrated by cynical politicians and an irresponsible mass media