Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox The government has been accused of ‘riding roughshod’ over Greater Manchester leaders by housing asylum seekers in hotels with ‘minimal notice’ to local councils.
Mayor Andy Burnham has repeated calls on the Home Office to introduce a fairer distribution of dispersal accommodation for refugees - including people fleeing from Afghanistan - across the country.
All local authorities in the UK need to play their part in the resettlement programme, Mr Burnham said, and that a new approach had to be ‘fair to the people coming here and the communities welcoming them’. READ MORE : Home Office ‘apologises’ for placing Afghan refugees in Salford with less
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