Burnham Will Send Asylum Seekers to Middle-Class Areas despite higher costs
13th August 2026
Moving asylum seekers to middle-class areas will cost taxpayers more, Downing Street has admitted.
Andy Burnham will push ahead with his plan to send asylum seekers to more expensive postcodes as a “point of principle”, despite acknowledging the greater costs.
The principle being that progressives are never happy unless they are pissing in someone else’s soup.