THOUSANDS of asylum seekers and Channel migrants are living in four and five star luxury at British taxpayers’ expense, The Sun can reveal.
One in four of the hotels used to house them are rated in the top brackets denoting class and some high-end resorts nationwide are blocked booked for months.
Home Office officials are “sitting refreshing booking.com” in the hunt for more capacity, a source said, pushing up prices for Brits looking to go away at Christmas and the New Year as supply dwindles.
PM Rishi Sunak said 4,500 more hotel beds were acquired to help meet the need since September – as councils providing accommodation warned of being at “breaking point”.
Taxpayers are being stung for £6.8million a day – or £2.4billion a year – to keep 35,000 people awaiting deportation in UK hotels.