![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/suella-braverman-its-almost-impossible-to-house-all-the-immigrants/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/TELEMMGLPICT000314642607_1_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqIsdkc9lW7c-xGV6JP1W9B7h4EMHvejqTBE7noF274Ls.jpeg&description=The source who worked with Mrs Patel in the Home Office said she was "saddened to see this great office of state being brought into such disrepute on multiple levels'. However, Mrs Braverman denied she had failed to book hotels or act on legal advice warning migrants were being detained for unlawfully long periods. She told MPs: "What I have refused to do is to prematurely release thousands of people into local communities without having anywhere for them to stay." Pledging to visit the site "shortly" amid questions over her decision making, she said: "I have never ignored legal advice, as a former attorney general I know the importance of taking legal advice into account." She added later: "On no occasion have I blocked the procurement of hotels or alternative accommodation to ease the pressure on Manston, I'm afraid that simply isn't true." What she had done, she said, was to instigate an urgent review and pushed officials to identify accommodation options that were more cost-effective and quicker than hotels. She claimed some migrants were staying in four-star hotels at a cost of £150 per person per day. She said Manston had been provided with extra accommodation and that since Sept 6, on her watch, 30 new hotels were 'agreed' to provide 4,500 beds, with an additional 1,800 beds in 13 hotels since the start of October. Whitehall sources, however, said there was a difference between 'agreeing' and 'signing off' hotels. 'She delayed by asking for advice on options but she did not sign off, which is what you need to deliver. She asked for more legal advice as a stalling tactic,' said one source. Used her private email Home Office sources said Mrs Braverman sought a second legal opinion to challenge what internal lawyers said about the need to book hotels. One said: 'What is hard to dispute is the fact that there were insufficient hotels booked.' Mrs Braverman also sought to draw a line under the row over her resignation for using her private email to send a confiden){kind=link}
The Home Secretary denied that she had ignored legal advice or blocked using hotel accommodation but appeared isolated on the frontbench
Suella Braverman claimed she was the victim of a “witch hunt” as she fought for her political future on a day of damaging allegations.
The Home Secretary faced down claims in the Commons that she had ignored legal advice or blocked plans to use hotels to tackle chronic overcrowding at the main asylum processing centre for Channel migrants at the disused Manston airfield in Kent.
She insisted it was “practically impossible” to house all the migrants as she said “illegal immigration was out of control”.
She said the south coast faced an “invasion” with 40,000 migrants arriving so far this year at double the rate of 2021. “Let’s all stop pretending that they are all refugees in distress,” she said.