West Lindsey District Council has launched legal action over the Home Office’s plans to put up to 2,000 single adult male asylum seekers at RAF Scampton, the Lincolnshire council said on Friday.
It comes two days after immigration minister Robert Jenrick announced the plan to use three disused military bases to house “several thousand asylum seekers through repurposed barrack blocks and portakabins” in a bid to cut costs and deter illegal immigration.
