Fleetwood MP Lorraine Beavers quashes rumours asylum seekers are being housed at The New Boston Hotel

Blackpool Gazette

Lorraine Beavers, MP for Blackpool North and Fleetwood, responded to claims that the 24-bed seafront hotel - known locally as The Boston and located on The Esplanade - is housing asylum seekers.

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00:00Outside the Boston Hotel this morning, obviously some person has decided to put on here that there

00:08are 60 asylum seekers in this place. There's no asylum seekers in this place. It's going to be

00:14a hotel, an apartment, which is what the people of Fleetwood understood. Whoever's putting out

00:19this misinformation and absolute lies needs to go and give their head a wobble. This isn't happening,

00:29this was never going to happen. This is going to be a hotel. Just to calm everybody down.

00:34And no, I wasn't here yesterday. I'm here today to clear up the lies that have been put on social media.

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