Home Secretary pledges to 'end' asylum hotels

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Home Secretary Yvette Cooper reiterates the manifesto commitment to "end asylum hotels", adding the government inherited a system that was "in chaos". Report by Brooksl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Well, we're clear that we need to end asylum hotels. That is a manifesto

00:05commitment that we made across the course of this Parliament. We're also

00:09taking much stronger action to tackle issues around illegal working, around

00:13criminality in the asylum system, including strengthening the law. So it's

00:19really important that we can take those serious steps, step by step, in order to

00:24bring down the numbers who are in the asylum system, in order to be able to

00:28close the asylum hotels, and in order to be able to restore order and control to

00:34the system which, frankly, we inherited an asylum system that really was just in

00:39chaos and is taking time to put that order and control back in place.

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