It is a big issue on the Lincolnshire coast
An MP has said he 'will do everything he possibly can' on concerns over asylum seekers being housed in hotels at a tourist destination. Matt Warman, the Tory MP for Skegness and Boston, has said he and the area's council is firmly focused on tackling the issues around refugees being put up in seaside Skegness hotels.
He said: "It's important that when people's elected representatives, whether it's the council or whether it's me, stand up and say things, they mean it and they're going to follow up. If that means following this up in court, then that's what we're going to do."The London-born MP was criticised during a town meeting in November, where residents voiced their upset over the temporary closure of the five hotels in the tourism hot spot.
However, Mr Warman felt there was still "misinformation" circulating about the limits of the Government in handling migrants who arrive on the UK's shores. He said: "I think that it's important that people like me are honest with those people. "But we can't legally turn them around when they're in a dinghy halfway across the Channel." He has previously described the situation in Skegness as the result of the country's immigration system "creaking at the seams".
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