Priti Patel blasts government’s ‘secretive’ five-year plan to house asylum seekers on RAF base
Former home secretary Priti Patel has accused the government of being “secretive about its intentions” to house asylum seekers on a former military base. Ministers claim that accommodating 1,700 migrants at RAF Wethersfield in Essex will be cheaper than hotels, but a leaked Home Office memo showed that “value for …