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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 move by Tory Home
Secretary Michael Howard ...