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  "textContent": "\n\n\nLabour has been hit with a backlash after it was confirmed the Home Office is planning to use more former military barracks to house thousands of asylum seekers.\n\nThere has been outrage after it was revealed the new locations would be in five seats not held by Labour at Westminster.\n\nPlanning permission is being sought at Ministry of Defence sites in Bicester in Oxfordshire, Barnham in Suffolk, and Linton-on-Ouse in North Yorkshire, giving the Home Office capacity to accommodate 3,750 asylum seekers.\n\nProfessor Olga Matthias, spokesman for the Linton-on-Ouse action group, told The Telegraph: \"It’s always been the wrong place. At the time of the campaign, we said it was the wrong plan in the wrong place.\n\n\"That hasn’t changed. It is a small village without the infrastructure to support hundreds of asylum seekers.\"\n\n\nShadow Justice Secretary Nick Timothy, whose West Suffolk constituency neighbours the site, also said: \"Housing undocumented asylum seekers here would affect safety, services and cohesion.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Liberal Democrat MP Calum Miller raised concerns about asylum seekers being placed in his Bicester and Woodstock constituency.\n\nMr Miller, who is also the party's Foreign Affairs Spokesman, said: \"My main concern at the moment is the lack of warning from the Home Office and the lack of evidence they have provided to me and the local community as to why this is justified.\n\n\"We need to know about cost, whether this represents value for the taxpayer. We need to know what will be done to protect local residents, what security arrangements will be put in place. And what regime will be put in place to keep those within the site safe.\"\n\nThe Liberal Democrat MP added: \"Only when we’ve had realistic answers to those questions will we be in any position to respond formally to this. But my instincts are shock and worry about whether this is right for our community.\"\n\n_**_FOLLOW BELOW FOR LIVE UPDATES THROUGHOUT THE DAY…_**_\n\n### Labour seeking to house THOUSANDS of asylum seekers in three new ex-military sites - is your area one of them?\n\n\n\n\nLabour is seeking to house thousands of asylum seekers in three new ex-military sites around Britain.\n\nThe fresh immigration reforms, introduced to Parliament next week, threaten to affect rural towns across the UK.\n\nREAD THE FULL STORY HERE.\n\n### RECAP: EU threatens British farmers with immediate ban under Labour's Brexit 'deal'\n\n\n\n\nThe EU is threatening to hammer British farmers as soon as Labour's Brexit reset \"deal\" comes into force.\n\nIf and when he becomes Prime Minister, Andy Burnham will be forced to endure Brussels bureaucrats looking to impose the bloc's food standards on Britain.\n\nThe EU is looking to immediately implement a ban on pesticides, which are legal in Britain but banned in the bloc, in an alignment on food standards.\n\nBritish Government officials have proposed a \"transition period\" for British farmers to adjust back to the EU regulations.\n\nREAD THE FULL STORY HERE.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n**Our Standards: The GB News Editorial Charter**",
  "title": "Home Office asylum seeker military camps plan faces fury as Labour seats avoid 5,000 migrants"
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