Panicking senior Labour MPs have called for the closure of asylum hotels in months rather than years and called for a Rwanda-style deportation scheme after more “dire” official figures on migration .

A record 111,084 people applied for asylum in the first year of the Labour government, while the number of asylum seekers housed in hotels rose 8 per cent to 32,059 after a surge in Channel crossings, new data showed on Thursday.

The figures came as the Home Office scrambled to deal with a new potential crisis as councils around the country consider legal action to close asylum hotels in their areas following a court ruling that 138 migrants should be remove d from The Bell hotel in Epping, Essex.

Senior Labour MPs, all of them under threat of losing their seats to Nigel Farage’s Reform

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