The leftist Labour Party government is facing backlash from backbenchers over plans to prioritise migrants over Britons in newly built government housing.
Prime Minister Sir Kier Starmer may be forced into another politically embarrassing U-turn, as a brewing rebellion from within his own party’s ranks is brewing over the already contentious issue of housing asylum seekers, many of whom entered the country illegally.
The government is seeking to move away from the Tory-era scheme of block booking hotels across the country to house migrants, which sparked nationwide protests following a spate of sexual assaults committed by foreign inhabitants against native women and girls. The government appears to believe the public objects not to the migrants themselves but the hotels, and that by moving
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