Robert Jenrick says UK asylum seekers should be held in ‘rudimentary prisons’

<p>Shadow justice minister, seen as nurturing Tory leadership hopes, criticises Reform’s immigration plans as too weak</p><p>Robert Jenrick has called for asylum seekers to be detained in “camps” with facilities like “rudimentary prisons”, in an apparent attempt to outflank Reform with his anti-immigration rhetoric.</p><p>The shadow justice secretary told Tim Shipman at the Spectator of his hope for a “decade of net emigration” as Britain “now needs breathing space after this period of mad migration”.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/04/robert-jenrick-says-uk-asylum-seekers-should-be-held-in-rudimentary-prisons">Continue reading...</a>