Plans to rent houses for Channel migrants are “wrong and unfair”, Nigel Farage has blasted.
The Reform UK leader declared Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has “failed completely” on ending the small boats crisis.
And Labour is set to ramp up the number of houses, flats and bedsits being used to accommodate asylum seekers to prevent the use of hotel rooms for Channel arrivals.
It comes as 10,000 migrants have crossed the Channel this year.
Sources have described a busy day for Border Force on Monday, less than 24 hours after 247 people crossed on five boats. This took the total to 9,885. Today’s arrivals are likely to take the total past 10,000.
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage said: “We’ve just passed a milestone – 10,000 people have now crossed the English Channel so far this year.
“That is nearly 50% up on last year. And at the same time, Serco, one of the big providers of hotel spaces for these illegal immigrants, has now put this list out on social media saying ‘we want to rent your house, we will rent it for five years, we will pay you a premium rate’.
“If the hotels weren’t bad enough, let me promise you, with the tens of thousands that are going to come this year, one of those residences will be very close to you. It is wrong. It is unfair. It is totally out of control. And when Starmer said he was going to smash the gangs, he has failed completely and utterly.”
Asylum accommodation provider Serco wants more landlords, investors and agents with properties in the North-west, the Midlands and the East of England to lease for more than five years.
Serco told potential landlords it already has more than 30,000 asylum seekers in an “ever-growing” portfolio of more than 7,000 properties. And Serco has admitted it is trying to expand its asylum accommodation portfolio. It comes as nearly 10,000 migrants have crossed the Channel so far this year.
The Serco list, broken down into three regions, revealed the list of towns and areas where asylum seekers could be housed as the Government scrambles to end the use of hotels.
In the East of England:
• Babergh/Mid Suffolk
• Breckland
• Broadlands/South Norfolk
• Cambridge
• East Cambridgeshire
• East Suffolk
• Fenland
• Great Yarmouth
• Huntingdonshire
• Ipswich
• King's Lynn and West Norfolk
• Mid Suffolk
• North Norfolk
• Norwich
• Peterborough
• South Cambridgeshire (Cambourne, Sawston)
• South Norfolk
• West Suffolk (Bury St Edmunds, Newmarket, Brandon, Haverhill, Mildenhall)
The Midlands:
• Amber Valley
• Ashfield
• Bassetlaw
• Birmingham
• Blaby
• Bolsover
• Boston
• Bromsgrove and Redditch
• Broxtowe
• Cannock Chase
• Charnwood
• Chesterfield
• Derby
• Derbyshire Dales
• Dudley
• East Lindsey
• East Staffordshire (Burton-upon-Trent and Uttoxeter)
• Erewash (Derbyshire)
• Gedling
• Harborough
• Herefordshire County
• High Peak
• Hinkley and Bosworth
• Leicester
• Lincoln
• Lichfield
• Malvern Hills
• Mansfield
• Melton
• Newark and Sherwood
• Newcastle-under-Lyme
• North East Derbyshire
• North Kesteven (Lincolnshire)
• North Northamptonshire (Kettering, Corby, Wellingborough)
• North Warwickshire
• North West Leicestershire (Coalville)
• Nottingham
• Nuneaton and Bedworth
• Oadby and Wigston
• Rugby
• Rushcliffe
• Rutland
• Sandwell
• Shropshire
• Solihull
• South Derbyshire (Swadlincote)
• South Holland
• South Kesteven (Lincolnshire)
• South Staffordshire
• Stafford
• Staffordshire Moorlands
• Stoke-on-Trent
• Stratford-on-Avon
• Tamworth
• Telford and Wrekin
• Walsall
• Warwick (Leamington Spa, Kenilworth)
• West Lindsey
• West Northamptonshire (Northampton and Daventry)
• Wolverhampton
• Worcester
• Wychavon
• Wyre Forest
The North West of England:
• Allerdale
• Barrow-in-Furness
• Blackburn and Darwen
• Blackpool
• Bolton
• Burnley
• Bury
• Carlisle
• Cheshire East
• Cheshire West and Chester
• Chorley
• Copeland
• Eden (Penrith)
• Flyde
• Halton
• Hyndburn
• Knowsley
• Lancaster
• Liverpool
• Manchester
• Oldham
• Pendle
• Preston
• Ribble Valley
• Rochdale
• Rossendale
• Salford
• Sefton
• South Lakeland
• South Ribble
• Stockport
• St Helens
• Tameside
• Trafford
• Warrington
• West Lancashire
• Wigan
• Wirral
• Wyre.
