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Article: Why asylum seekers are staying put in London.
- Article from:
- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 10, 2001
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LONDON is still shouldering an unfair burden with more than twice as many asylum seekers than the rest of Britain put together.
And more than one in three asylum seekers sent north under the Government's contentious dispersal plan are believed to have drifted back to the capital to escape hostility and isolation on sink estates where they have been taken against their will.
But while the Home Office concedes that the dispersal system has had a shaky start and "has a long way to go yet" it is beginning to ease the pressure on London boroughs which were facing intolerable pressure when Labour came to power.
London's burden has its roots in a panic ...