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Evening Standard
Charlie Duffield

Podcast: Billions squandered on migrant hotels due to Home Office ‘incompetence’

A demonstration outside the former Bell Hotel in Epping (PA) - (PA Wire)

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A parliamentary report has sharply criticised the Home Office's management of the asylum system that has led to "billions" of pounds being wasted.

It said the government has repeatedly cut corners and wasted taxpayers’ money with its “failed, chaotic and expensive” system.

It comes as the Housing Secretary has said that progress on ending the use of hotels for asylum accommodation will be announced “within weeks”.

Daniel Sohege, a specialist in international refugee law and protection, and the director of human rights organisation Stand For All, is here to discuss the news.

And in part two, The Standard’s Entertainment Editor Lisa McLoughlin joins us as it’s been revealed that Hollywood A-list couple Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes have moved to the leafy north London suburb of Hampstead.

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