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Government to keep asylum seekers on defense bases

8/12/2026

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Anna Turley (Home Office minister) said the government will keep plans to house asylum seekers on defence bases.
Government closed 13 hotels, runs two bases, while Piddington, Oxfordshire residents protested a proposal for 1,000 asylum seekers and held a referendum.
Mike Nixon (vice-chairman of Piddington Parish Council) and the Labour mayor of North Yorkshire said the centre will affect residents’ lives and called RAF Linton-on-Ouse centre “simply the wrong place.”

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Anna Turley (Home Office minister) said the government will keep plans to house asylum seekers on defence bases.
Government closed 13 hotels, runs two bases, while Piddington, Oxfordshire residents protested a proposal for 1,000 asylum seekers and held a referendum.
Mike Nixon (vice-chairman of Piddington Parish Council) and the Labour mayor of North Yorkshire said the centre will affect residents’ lives and called RAF Linton-on-Ouse centre “simply the wrong place.”