💥 ‘HUGE ADMISSI0N 0F FAILURE!’ 💥 A top Tory MP has slammed Labour’s latest plan to house asylum seekers on military barracks, calling it a “national embarrassment.”

In the Government’s latest attempt to tackle the nation’s migrant crisis, the Home Office has confirmed that almost 1,000 asylum seekers will be housed on former bases from November.

Migrants will be moved into the Cameron Barracks in Inverness and Crowborough Training Camp in East Sussex.

Alex Burghart has hit out at Labour’s latest plan to house asylum seekers, branding it a ‘huge admission of failure’

Delivering his scathing verdict on the plans, Mr Burghart told GB News: “This is just a huge admission of failure, and the fact is that there shouldn’t be a need for any of this.

“When the Conservatives left office last summer, we had the Rwanda plan in place, and the first thing that Keir Starmer did when he became Prime Minister was scrap it.”

Criticising Sir Keir’s decision further, he added: “The first thing he did was scrap a deterrent programme, which would have meant that people who crossed the Channel illegally, came to our country illegally, their feet wouldn’t have touched the ground.

“They would have been sent to a third country for processing. That would have been a major deterrent to the gangs and to the people crossing. Instead, Labour tore that up, and here’s the result.”

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Declaring the Labour Government has “let us down” with its handling of the migrant crisis, the Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster said: “They’re having to use army barracks, having to use massive army barracks to house thousands and thousands of people who’ve come to the country.

“They’ve really let us down, and it’s time that they admitted that.”

As host Ellie Costello pointed out at the Conservatives used the former RAF Scampton base to house migrants, Mr Burghart responded: “That’s right, and that’s one of the reasons why we passed the Rwanda plan in the first place.

“That’s why we had all of those battles with the courts to try and get the Rwanda plan in place so that we could cut off this terrible trade of people across across the Channel.”

Mr Burghart told GB News that illegal migrants ‘wouldn’t have touched the ground’ had the Rwanda plan still been in place

Speaking to the People’s Channel on Monday, Housing Secretary Steve Reed outlined the plans for “modular homes” on the former bases, and how it will prove “lower cost” for Britons.

He explained: “We know we need to change the system. So what the Government is looking to do is how can we build cheaper accommodation.

“Say modular homes on disused army bases or military bases, and get asylum seekers into that accommodation, which is far lower cost, and save the taxpayer money.

“We’ve already saved a billion by changes we’ve made, but we know we need to save more, but then we also need to process the applications faster. The previous Government chose not to process them at all, that’s why there are so many people in the hotels.”