Labour must 'abandon plans' to place 83 asylum seekers in £250k homes after GB News reveals Home Office ban, says local MP

Labour must "abandon plans" to place 83 asylum seekers at a new-build development and release an immediate public statement on the Stoke Heath site, local MP Mark Pritchard has told GB News.

Mr Pritchard, who was first elected as the MP for The Wrekin in 2005, put pressure on Shabana Mahmood immediately after the Home Secretary confirmed asylum seekers were banned from new-build accommodation.

Speaking to The People's Channel, Mr Pritchard said: "With so many empty public buildings available, where asylum seekers could be housed, and with so many of my constituents struggling to find suitable rental housing in their own local villages and towns, a ban on migrants being allowed to move into new-builds, would be a late but welcome development.

"The Government now needs to abandon plans to put asylum seekers into Stoke Heath's new build housing."

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Writing on social media a few hours later, Mr Pritchard added: "A Home Office Minister needs to make an immediate public statement confirming Stoke Heath new-build houses will no longer be used to house asylum seekers – and the Government will stop further asylum placements into the Stoke Heath community."

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